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
Archives for June 2020
Summer showers
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
Struggling with chilli peppers
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
Summer salad
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