Comment on Into the darkness with the winter garden by The StopWatch Gardener
Christine, thank you for the lovely comment and I’m sorry it took me a while to get back to you, I’ve been drowning In Christmas things. I hope you have a wonderful new year yourself! Any garden...
View ArticleComment on New Year’s gardening resolutions I can live with by Helen
Ha ha so you will be doing stepover apples too!! My gardening resolutions are to finish clearing my allotment (still one bed of virgin soil), to prick out seedlings promptly and pot up better and to...
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Hello Helen – We must have some kind of psychic connection because I have been looking at my vast collection of surplus plants and thinking, how can I sell these? I have a friend who runs a...
View ArticleComment on New Year’s gardening resolutions I can live with by Cally
I have a similar resolution about the hyacyiths. One of mine finally began to open yesterday but the other will be at least another week. Ah well. I’m gardening near the Pentlands and trying to...
View ArticleComment on New Year’s gardening resolutions I can live with by Sheila
Sheila, I laughed at your resolution on hyacinths. EXACTLY the same problem- except I’m probably a month behind you. And the paperwhites came out in early December and were past by Christmas. My plans...
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Ooh Sheila I have discovered something else!! Our hyacinths are in flower now in the table, and as *soon* as they start to pong, I snip off the heads that are wilting and the pong goes away. It’s only...
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Cally thank you, I would like to have a look at that! What colour hyacinths are you growing by the way? I went for shocking pink this year and have no regrets.
View ArticleComment on New Year’s gardening resolutions I can live with by Nitty Gritty...
What a wonderful post! I never do resolutions — but at this time of year, I’m always thinking of what to do next in the garden. Each year, I tend to pick a seed as an experiment — something tropical or...
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Nitty gritty, thank you for that! I’m so envious you’ve grown a tree from seed, awesome! Any ideas how I can get a tree seed to germinate (for a jacaranda)? Tell me what your project will be, would...
View ArticleComment on New Year’s gardening resolutions I can live with by Kath Wright
I will be planting a few lovely, colourful, hardy grasses and plants, in honour of the late landscape designer Wolfgang Oehme (I literally just found out he passed on Noel’s blog today, a real shame: a...
View ArticleComment on New Year’s gardening resolutions I can live with by Juliette Atkinson
I’m new to gardening blogs, but I must say reading your New Year resolutions is great – I had no idea there was a world of people out there with problems just like me! My resolutions are to grow more...
View ArticleComment on New Year’s gardening resolutions I can live with by Teri Sherman
I have huge plans for my garden this year. Watched Alys Fowler’s Edible Garden programme last year and want to do something like that. Hubby wants to make an observatory slap bang in the middle of it...
View ArticleComment on It’s my garden and I’ll purge if I want to by SussexSarah
Hmm, interesting blog. I thought I was going to say that I never purged, but it’s just not true is it… first of all to go was the Kerria which thinks it is starring from escape from Colditz and is...
View ArticleComment on Ten signs you’re obsessed with the garden by SussexSarah
Oh oh oh. I laughed till I cried. I think I score 11 out of 10! Especially reciting plants when swimming laps – I never knew anyone else did that.
View ArticleComment on Ten signs you’re obsessed with the garden by The StopWatch Gardener
Thanks Sarah – it’s funny that you should leave a comment on this post, as I was thinking about it only today, wondering if I should do another post about the fact that worried – really worried now –...
View ArticleComment on It’s my garden and I’ll purge if I want to by The StopWatch Gardener
You’re making me nervous about my lamium, which my mother-in-law has told me I absolutely must purge, but I do love its silvery loveliness! I’m telling it that it must not pass the line of the Apple...
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Thanks Teri! I purchased my irrigation kit today for the raised bed, and I am promising all my vegetables that they will be fat and lovely this year, instead of gaunt and starved of moisture. Sounds...
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Juliette, I’m sorry to leave it so long without replying! I know that ornamental gourds can be so enjoyable, even if they’re not edible. I do not use grow bags & had little success with potato...
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Kath – have you planted yet? Would love to know what grasses you are looking at!
View ArticleComment on New Year’s gardening resolutions I can live with by Phil (Smiling...
I have a food garden at my parents’ place that I put in so they would have fresh food throughout the year. My main goal this year is to continue making it as self-sufficient as possible since I am not...
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