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, scones and cream or ice-cream.  My raised beds are and have been stuffed with veg and flowers for a month now .  braod bean crop super, great lettuces and salad leaves and rdishes and spring onions.rainbow chard a great success.  I can definitely

for spelling mistakes but no plant book handy lol  I am still picking salad leaves ,pulling radishes,carrots out of my hanging baskets.Have started to harvest parsnips out of plant pots. My figs were ripening up until last week.They have been gorgeous

your life easier in the long run. Also, I would advise you not to put those perennial weeds on your compost bin. Get rid of them some other way (we burn ours).Good luck Surplus lettuce (and other salad) leaves? They make excellent "spinach". Steamed

and I've taken the salad drawers from the old fridge and I'm going to use them as mini cloches. I have also used an old plastic container that had glace cherries in and I've made a small hole in the lid so that I can thread the end of my ball of garden

with indoor plants didn't leave a lot to be desired (think I over-watered them). So when the first plants I planted did start to grow and then flower, I felt an immense sense of achievement! I had actually grown something and not killed them as I would have a

of your garden.  Would leycesteria formosa (pheasant berry) grow there?  It grows tall enough that the hens can't jump up to eat it all, and it has attractive flowers and berries which they love.  The only things that have survived in my hens' permanent

worlds cant be a bad thing see if you can get hold of some wine boxes they are great for growing salad stuff in.       My garden is quite small and as it was a new build when we moved here 19 years ago all that's in it and how it looks is down to me

Alchemilla Mollis into a tray to grow on and yes-yes, this will become a pest in a few years time but not yet  I love so many things about this plant and its only real drawback is that it wilts a little in the hottest part of the day (big girls blouse). I

the management of this beast over the years, it just kept growing and I left it to take up a good few feet because although its base is ugly, I always adore its gorgeous plumes that I watch from my kitchen window all winter long. I know its spring because

Having a cat has it's good side and draw backs, Since the death of my beloved "Sam" the garden has been a safe haven for all the nesting birds and their young but I am now over run with Mice, not so bad and Rats, not so good. I also have to put up with the neighbours cats now,(lu...