August, like July, has been a challenging month in the garden. High winds, lots of rain and not much sun. I even had to put cold-frame lids over new plantings of lettuce to protect them from the gales and hail! It looks like everything has pulled through though, the squash...
July has probably topped June in the crazy month awards, with a few days colder than February and then blazing hot a few days later followed by gales and heavy rain. The beans have suffered the most, only just starting to climb. The squash and brassicas (that survived cabbage root...
May has been a much more relaxed month than April, sowing just a few seeds and a leisurely planting schedule. Almost all of the summer planting is complete now, with about half of the autumn/winter brassica’s in too. The focus now switches to preparing for an abundant winter and spring,...
April is my busiest month, huge harvests, lots of sowing, but even more planting and lots of beds to clear and recondition ready for May planting, so it’s quite a relief to get to May. I have dozens of seed trays full of healthy plants now and many of the...
March is my busiest sowing month, so it’s quite a relief to get to April. I have dozens of seed trays full of healthy plants now and many of the February and early March sowings are in the ground. The main challenge has been the onions, I’ve had a couple...
March is my busiest sowing month and a lot of my sowing decisions are driven by having enough space to germinate and pot on seeds/seedlings. In this video I show you the progress of my January and February sowings which are doing fairly well. To really appreciate the progress I...
This video provides an overview of everything that I’m growing – but not harvesting – in January and everything that I’m sowing in Feburay. If you want to see what I’m harvesting in January you can check out the following video: The video shows several databases that I’m using to...
Let’s get this out of the way immediately: there’s no desperate need to sow in January. I’m doing it for some very specific reasons that I explain in the video, but normally sowing in the autumn and mid-February onwards are the best times. That said there are a few things...
This is a new monthly video where I will do a quick run through of the seedlings that I’m sowing and growing on and planting out during the current month. I will try and do it early in the month, in case I inspire anyone to do likewise, but remember...