The One Pot Pledge by leading gardening charity, Garden Organic, is an exciting new grow your own campaign aimed at encouraging people who have never grown anything before, to give it a goGrowing your own is fun, the produce tastes great and you don't even need a garden.Garden Organic want … [Read more...]
Large brown caterpillar
Print This PostMay 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Over the last few weeks, notes and holes started to appear on the leaves of one of our clematis, this was followed very quickly by huge chunks taken out of the recently emerged leaves of an old English rose.With no sign of slug or snail slime (our usual culprits), we had no option but to go … [Read more...]
Patio Potatoes
Print This PostOctober 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
One of our readers experimented this year by growing potatoes in a tub on the patio. At the end of August, after the stalks had died back, he emptied out about 8Kg of tubers.Earlier in the year, four seed potatoes were planted at the base of a 20 litre potGradually adding compost … [Read more...]
