Search - Sitewide

the changing seasons and the transitions of colours and foliage and form through the year.   Harvesting crops in the fruit and veg plot. Seeing wildlife enjoy it and just calming the soul by looking at it - as long as you can stop twitching at weeds for a sec

be devastated ... I had a similar but, by comparison, very very minor incident in my garden last year with a man who came to cut the grass. I was at home but even so he (and his dog on my veg patch) managed to do damage before I realised what was happening

ago on a plot that had been abandoned for 25 years. Thought I would show you the difference.  This is what it was a year ago    This is last summer .    New beds put in and lawn shaped in Feb..  Ans this is how it stands at the moment. New turf

's particularly adept with smaller plots (mainly urban) and understands that small spaces are usually harder to design than big ones. I assume most people here read G's World where his designs are often shown more fully, complete with planting plans etc. I think

thing? Few years back amd only having lunch hour I decided to side shoot my melons growing in a cold frame.  Only had about 3 melons.  In my haste I "side shooted" the fruit.  No melons I usually do things in great  haste...no patience....stepped on veg

was much larger than the fox and it got all these by jumping on top of the chicken house and over a 6 ft wire fence. it also carried goose over fence and left its headless body lying in my veg patch.We have been out in the evening and found it lying

please tell me if it's time to dig the rye grass into the veg patch. Thank you, Sue I live in South West Wales and my backyard garden faces south. When the weather is good it's a real sun-trap.Last year I bought a small olive tree bearing fruit.It is now

Yes, it's certainly been a great year for tomatoes.....and the tomato/potato blight has finally arived , this week, in my Hampshire garden! Luckily not in the greenhouse yet, so toms are OK! I have grown Alicante Tomatoes this year in the greenhouse and have come up beautifully. ...

today emptying my compost bins - have changed the soil in greenhouses ready for my tomato plants -the rest to go on veg plots ready for all my plants which I am itching to plant out [but dare not yet in case of frost] I started my runner beans

of course not done by a real person - a developer making money - has built a 5 bedroom housse with a tiny walled backyard at the front of the plot and this "bungalow" at the back....always used to think a bungalow was single story! hey ho! Cheers GG Rosa