Category: Monthly sowing guides
I love writing these monthly reviews, although January is perhaps the most boring of them, because everything slows down to a crawl. This year though it’s a much more exciting month because grow lights are allowing me to squeeze in additional harvests in lots of my beds and especially the...
I love writing these monthly reviews and plans for the following month, so much seems to happen in such a short time and our diet changes as each month clicks by. The fruit changes the most. September saw us overwhelmed with tomatoes/peppers/cucumbers and plums and October saw the winter squash...
I love writing these monthly reviews and plans for the following month, so much seems to happen in such a short time and our diet changes as each month clicks by. The fruit changes the most. September saw us overwhelmed with tomatoes/peppers/cucumbers and plums and October saw the winter squash...
I love writing these monthly reviews and plans for the following month, so much seems to happen in such a short time and our diet changes as each month clicks by. The fruit changes the most. August saw us awash with berries, September with tomatoes/peppers/cucumbers and plums and October sees...
This article outlines what I consider to be the ‘best’ seeds to sow in October, importantly October might not be the best time to sow these seeds, my criteria in selecting them is whether you stand a reasonable chance of getting a successful harvest, this late in the year. I...
I love writing these monthly reviews and plans for the following month, so much seems to happen in such a short time and our diet changes as each month clicks by. The fruit changes the most. July saw us awash with berries, August with tomatoes/peppers and plums and September will...
For an overview of everything that I’m sowing for the whole year, please take a look at my month-by-month sowing guide. July continued the wet, windy and fairly cold weather from June, but the polytunnel tomatoes delivered and the low tunnels protected the peppers and gave us a brilliant harvest....
For an overview of everything that I’m sowing for the whole year, please take a look at my month-by-month sowing guide. June finally saw the end of the drought that had been with us for the whole of spring, which was a huge relief. A few plants suffered badly, but...
For an overview of everything that I’m sowing for the whole year, please take a look at my month-by-month sowing guide. May was perhaps even more challenging than April, we had three frosts, one of them bad enough to kill about 20% of the peppers and French beans, even under...
For an overview of everything that I’m sowing for the whole year, please take a look at my month-by-month sowing guide. April has had it’s ups and downs, that’s for sure! Set aside Covid 19 and the associated lockdown, the biggest challenge has been blazing hot sun during the day...