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Gardening is both an evolutionary and innovative process. It is possible, of course, to buy a house where the garden is established and already bursting with colour. But after a few months it is inevitable that thoughts of tailoring the garden to your own and your family’s needs will come… Continue Reading…
Rosemary, thyme, santolina, box and lavender are among the herbs that can be grown as low hedges to enclose formal features or even to form the fabric of herb parterres. Herb hedges are usually shaped to make linear ribbons of foliage that outline or emphasize special areas of a herb… Continue Reading…
Decorative rings or wreaths can be lovely at any time of year. One of the simplest can be made by wrapping long strands of flowering hop vines into a ring. The fresh vines are very flexible (except when they are cold); secure the strands by wrapping them around each other.… Continue Reading…
Many gardens are buffeted by wind, even in the mildest areas. Wind swirls between buildings, while eddies develop close to walls. For large and exposed areas, hedges can help, but for those small and awkward corners found in most gardens, it is the plants themselves that must be resilient.
Coastal… Continue Reading…
Some vegetables are always sown directly into the ground or compost where they are to grow, notably carrots and parsnips, radishes and spring onions. Most other vegetables can either be sown direct or started off in pots, then planted out.
In many ways, sowing straight into the soil is easier… Continue Reading…
Where to begin with a garden? “Begin at the beginning,” says the King, in Alice in Wonderland, “and go on until you come to the end; then stop.” When it comes to gardening, however, there are two problems with the King’s approach: first, there is no “end” to the garden… Continue Reading…
Sowing indoors frees you from the vagaries of the weather and gives you much more control over seed germination. A greenhouse is the ideal place to start off vegetable seeds. It needs to be insulated and heated to prevent the temperature falling below freezing, or preferably keep it at about… Continue Reading…
Raising seedlings indoors is an option. If you- need only a few it’s easy to find them ready-grown at the nursery. If you want them in numbers – and you do, I hope – it pays to buy seed and raise them yourself. (If you don’t enjoy it, it doesn’t… Continue Reading…
When choosing herbs to plant, a primary consideration should be selecting the right plant for the right place. Selecting herbs that prefer sun for a corner of the garden that only offers shade, or planting a herb that likes fertile conditions in a patch of poor soil, will produce sickly… Continue Reading…
Here’s what I do when I sow annuals directly into the border: