February and March are not really good gardening months. In the old days there would be a slow transition from proper winter weather (snow) into cold dry days before spring. This year with 3 days in February the warmest on record here, one could be excused for thinking spring might come early. However, with April …Read More about February: Strange gardening weather
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Roasted lettuce
It is important for gardeners to know when to give up. Trying to grow summer salads in trays or containers in heatwave conditions is almost impossible, and a waste of water. The best salads are grown in the spring and autumn anyway. In the good old days Belgium summers were cool and wet and ideal …Read More about Roasted lettuce
Starting spring salad
Mid March is the usual time for sorting out salad trays and containers in the hope of bright sunny days and light showers to produce an early summer harvest. With the extreme cold weather of the last few weeks and temperatures looking low for the next two weeks, it may be a struggle this year. …Read More about Starting spring salad
Salads love rain
Gardeners love a bit of summer rain, especially when they have a few days notice of it coming. Summer can be a difficult time to keep salad crops going, extreme temperatures make it difficult to start new crops and cause existing crops to bolt. Thus knowing a bit of rain is forecast is the time …Read More about Salads love rain
Bolting Lettuce
The recent warm weather has made growing salad rather annoying. The little plants are just reaching a size when they are usable (and should be for the next 6 weeks) when suddenly one morning you find flowering stalks standing there in the middle of the plants rendering the leaves tough and unpleasant. This is bolting. …Read More about Bolting Lettuce
Salad in boxes
Salad crops do not like summer heat. Trying to start salad in the summer is difficult. Fortunately, with poor weather summers, with weeks of rain and overcast skies, the gardener can use the grey days and the shaded spots of the city garden to start salad most the year. Experimenting is everything. It is worth …Read More about Salad in boxes