With Valentine’s day out of the way it is time to get started with the garden. Onions and leeks are the first seeds to sow. These slow growing plants, suitable …Read More about Starting onions and leeks
The choice to grow vegetables from seed is often recommended simply on the basis of being cost effective. While this is true, a more important reason may be to produce …Read More about Growing from seed gallery
Soil is the foundation of any garden. It consists of a mixture of minerals, organic matter, gases, liquids, and the countless organisms that together support plant growth. Soil should be …Read More about Compost: growing soil gallery
There are many old varieties of tomato that have been saved by gardeners. They often have unique flavours and textures compared to supermarket tomatoes which are grown for consistent shape …Read More about Heirloom tomatoes
At this time of year with the advent of planting season you can go through a lot of plant containers, especially if you give a lot of plants away. The …Read More about A bit of recycling
Seed planting starts indoors each year around mid February. This has changed over the last few years as the winters have extended. The first batch of seeds are chilli peppers …Read More about Planting list – week ending 21 Feb 2016
This was a quick visit to Graham Bell’s forest garden in Coldstream, Scotland. The visit with Frank was to see the garden in winter. Graham has been building the garden …Read More about Graham Bell Scottish garden visit 1
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
