Every windowsill and balcony should have a salad garden. Growing lettuce in pots indoors at this time of year, while it is too cold outside, ensures young healthy plants are ready and growing for when the temperatures finally rise outside. With the huge variety available (see below) by post, it is well worth cluttering up …Read More about Starting lettuce in pots
Starting chilli peppers
With the recent hot summers it is well worth starting some chilli pepper plants now. Plants started from seed now will be ready for moving outside in about 8 weeks time. Chilli peppers are attractive pot plants that can be grown indoors on the floor or on windowsills, or on balconies or patios outdoors. They …Read More about Starting chilli peppers
December: Winter salad
With a few tricks winter salad can be planted throughout the winter months. In general, it should be planted late summer or early autumn but as winter in Belgium often starts with a hard frost and extreme cold, this can be difficult. Once this initial frost has passed the damp cold days work fine for …Read More about December: Winter salad
Tomato Gallery 2019 (Part 2)
As a general rule it is better to grow the smaller varieties of Mediterranean tomato in city gardens where they have restricted exposure. However, over the last 2 years the raised bed in this garden has been used to experiment with Eastern European varieties which produce larger tomatoes and can put up with the restricted …Read More about Tomato Gallery 2019 (Part 2)
November: Winter planting
Autumn is the time for planting broad beans, garlic and onions for harvesting in the spring and early summer next year. Planting between mid October and mid December means empty beds and pots are used during the winter months with the crops harvested just when the space is needed next year for summer crops. It …Read More about November: Winter planting
Tomato Gallery 2019 (Part 1)
Tomatoes grow well in small city gardens. A raised bed is the best way to grow them though large pots work well also. This raised bed is 5m by 1m with the garden wall behind it and a support framework of aluminium poles built over it. This year the bed was used for 18 types …Read More about Tomato Gallery 2019 (Part 1)