Finally a hint of summer, the rain has stopped. The disturbed spring may now lurch straight into summer. With caution, planting out can begin, but unfortunately the slugs and snails …Read More about June: Straight into summer
In terms of productivity, there is nothing better than courgettes and cucumbers for the small city garden. Courgettes will grow well in large containers or in one square metre of …Read More about Courgettes and Cucumbers
Most gardeners look forward to a bit of summer rain, the farmers certainly need it, but in recent summers this rain comes hard and fast and damages a lot of …Read More about Summer showers
It is annoying that the best specimens of chilli pepper this year are growing on a bedroom windowsill in the house. The weather so far this year has been a …Read More about Struggling with chilli peppers
While heatwaves in summer provide plenty of ripe tomatoes and cucumbers, summer salads often lack fresh lettuce leaves. Lettuce are cool weather crops, best either side of summer, but, with …Read More about Summer salad
The transition from spring to summer has been a bumpy one this year. While June last year was very dry and very warm this year has seen thunder storms, torrential …Read More about June: Summertime
Basil is a must-grow for the kitchen garden. Whether on a windowsill or balcony the plants take up little space and produce great results. In recent years, with changes in …Read More about Serious basil growing
Welcome to our Brussels Kitchen Garden This diary is about the small kitchen garden behind our … Read More about About The Garden
The purpose of this blog is to show and compare vegetable growing in a small urban garden between … Read More about Balcony Garden
In a lot of old townhouses particular to Brussels there is a basement garden door below ground level … Read More about Basement Garden
The raised bed in the garden is a simple soil filled wood construction 5 metres long by 1 metre … Read More about Raised Bed Garden
