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Gardening in Snow

Gardening in Snow Well despite the best laid plans of doing some work on the vegetable beds today, I’m not sure a great deal of

Leek and Potato Soup Recipe

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Fresh Leeks Having had enough of turkey and Christmas pudding, today was to be soup day. The day started by pulling some delicious looking leeks.

Frozen Landscape

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Frozen Apple Bud The hard frost last night provided a fantastic looking winter wonderland at Garden Posts this morning. Frozen Kale Frozen Lavender Frozen Landscape

Green Tomato Chutney

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Green Tomato Chutney The tomato harvest was really excellent this year. Consequently we had a huge amount of green tomatoes left on the plants as

Tomatoes & Peppers

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Tomatoes & Peppers Today we harvested the remainder of our tomatoes and peppers. This is just one of the many bowls full of lovely fruit

Gherkin Harvest

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Gherkin Harvest You may remember my post in May about Growing Gherkins. Well they certainly grew well. I kept the plant in the greenhouse all

Charlotte Potatoes

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Charlotte Potatoes Despite all the rain we have had this year, this is one of the best crops of second early potatoes we have ever

Sunflower in the Sunshine

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Sunflower (Helianthus annuu) There may not have been a great deal of sunshine this summer, but we did manage one really good sunflower this year.

Bean Harvest

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Climbing Beans and Runner Beans Having just returned from a few days away, it was wonderful to harvest a respectable crop of runner beans, climbing

Wet Bedding

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Wet Bedding Plants It looks like most of the bedding plants won’t need much watering this summer, despite the earlier hosepipe bans. The hanging baskets

Lavender Hedge

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Lavender (Lavandula) Hedge The lavender hedge looked radiant this morning. When the sun popped out between the grey clouds, it looked like a mid-summer dream.

Bean Flowers

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Climbing Bean Flowers Despite the non-stop rain and the lack of sunshine, the beans in the garden are doing pretty well. I planted a mixture

Prevent Snail or Slug Attack

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Crushed eggshells to prevent slug attack Try using crushed eggshells to prevent snail or slug attack. This method seems to work as hungry gastropods don’t

Peas in a Pod

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Peas in a pod You can almost taste how sweet these peas are from the picture. There is nothing better than popping down to the

Campanula (Bellflowers)

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Campanula or Bellflower (Campanulaceae) These wonderful violet Campanula flowers were making the most of what little sunshine there was in the garden today. I understand

Wild Strawberries

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Wild Strawberries (Fragaria vesca) We picked a wonderful crop sweet wild strawberries today. They seem to be taking over one of our borders. Now we

Le Manoir Gardens

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Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons We visited Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons for lunch this weekend to celebrate my Wife’s birthday. The gardens

Foxgloves – Digitalis

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Foxglove (Digitalis) It was lovely to see the honey bees going about their work amongst the foxgloves (Digitalis) in the sunshine this weekend.

Allium Mount Everest

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Allium ‘Mount Everest’ We planted these Allium Mount Everest along with lots of other spring bulbs, in September last year. At last the alliums have

Beech Tree

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Beech Tree (Fagus) Three years ago we planted 3 new beech trees and 3 new oak trees along the frontage of our house, however, after

Growing & Pickling Gherkins

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Gherkin – Cucumis Sativus (same family as the cucumber) Today I was lucky enough to have been given this beautiful gherkin plant. As you can

Mint & Chives in the Herb Garden

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Mint – Mentha It was great to see so many of last years herbs bouncing back to life and basking in the sunshine in the

Greenfly or Aphid Pest Control

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Green Fly – Aphid I found a few uninvited guests in my greenhouse this week. I know these little pests as greenfly, but they are

Cosmos Bipinnatus

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The Cosmos Bipinnatus – Double Click Snow Puff are full of promise for a wonderful display in the summer.

Daffodils & Tulips

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Div 5 Triandrus Narcissi – Thalia It was lovely to return from our Easter break to find the daffodils and tulips in full bloom. Div

Scaevola Flower – Maldives

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Scaevola Flower On a recent trip to Moofishi in the Maldives, we spotted this beautiful Scaevola flower from the Goodenia family (Goodeniaceae). Other names for