Seed Chili Peppers in January and February

If you are itching to get growing from seed, you could try Chilli peppers as they need a surprisingly early start. The good news is that they are easy to grow and we have an interesting and wide range of varieties.

Edible flowers Are Abundant All Year Round

Edible flowers are a hot topic at the moment and whilst I do not recommend taking risks with something new if you may have allergens and many people have pollen allergies there are many reasons for adding pretty flowers to your salads and cakes.

Home Grown Talk

This weekend we 'got going with grow your own'. It doesn't stop at vegetables. Home produce includes indispensable herbs for cooking and seasoning, fruit bushes and trees and amongst this we are thrifty to include all the perennial plants that we do not need to replant annually.

Dealing with slugs : Garlic Wash

This was recommended by a Hosta grower on Gardeners world.

Home produce: Grow Your Own A Quick Guide

Herb Garden Salad

 

My own garden salad. Made impromptu from my herb garden.

Sorrel, wild garlic, Salad Burnet, chives, mixed salad leaves, lambs lettuce, flat leaf parsley, wild rocket and for a sprinkling of colour few violas. Top with a dressing of French mustard, grilled lemon, toasted sesame seed oil and a drop of maple syrup.

There is nothing technical in this quick fix salad and it tasted great.

Companion Planting, Plants That Should and Should Not Be Grown Together

Companion planting is usually something we discuss in reference to protecting our vegetables from pests and enhancing their growth. Herbs in general are very beneficial when often aromatic creating distraction.

Here Are Some Plants That support One Another

Fruit for Thought. A Down to Earth Talk. Plant Your Fruit Now for Next Year

It's a very good time to plant fruit and the rest of your garden. The soil is moist and still warm giving shrubs, perennials, trees and fruit the optimum chance of establishing before we have winter dormancy. They can get their roots in the ground so they will be strong and ready to grow from April onwards next year.

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Fresh Flowers From Your Garden for Cutting

I Love Bringing Flowers Into The Home

Sweet peas and leucanthemum daisies are just some of the fresh flowers you can grow easily in your garden.

Growing Fruit

       

Fruit trees come in versatile sizes. We have trees to fit virtually any size plot. They begin as step over trees only a foot or so tall, then Espalier and Fan Trained Trees that spread out and Cordons that grow quite narrow, up against a wall. We have fruit on rootstock from 5ft to 15ft.

How To Grow Rhubarb

When it comes to important jobs in late winter as someone who was born in the famous Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle I must remind you to put your rhubarb forces over your rhubarb and bed some farmyard muck round the base.

My Home Grown Cutting Garden

Snipped from my cutting bed to go in the Garden Tipi. I love having a few flowers to cut amongst my vegetables. I really recommend it.

Ammi majus, gladioli,alstroemeria, scabious and a pretty little blue bulb are in this arrangement.

Get Going With Grow Your Own.

Herbs To Try

Most of us grow conventional every day herbs in pots such as rosemary, thyme, sage, marjoram, tarragon, lavender and mint but what do we know of some of the less grown herbs.

Get Going With Grow Your Own

 

We have lots of seeded vegetables that have just arrived:

Plant your strawberries in pots

Strawberries can look very pretty on a patio in a beautiful Errington Reay pot. Pretty white flowers followed by scrumptious fruit.

Figs can do well in pots

 

Fantastic figs. For a great crop grow them in pots. Figs need their roots restricting so they actually get on with the job in hand, fruit rather than roots and foliage and no fruit. Hence the old wife's tale plant in a Gladstone bag!

Time to plant rhubarb

 

It's the ideal time to get going with rhubarb when the crowns are just starting to shoot. 

Blueberries make lovely patio plants

 

Blueberries make lovely patio plants. Flowers, fruit and autumn colour. Remember to plant 2 together for polination and in ericaceous compost.

Plant You Soft Fruit Now

 

How about strawberries in our Errington Reay strawberry pots. They will look pretty on your patio in flower and later fruit.