Blog

Our Veggie Garden Project

blog

2nd stage – well this has inspired a summer makeover of the front garden.  Since we started with our whiteboard wish list I’ve cleared out the weeds, discovered self sown tomatoes, a few random potatoes.  The tomatoes have been staked, the soil turned over, a new crop of lettuce has gone in.  I’m using seedling lettuce as it will deliver a quicker crop for us.

I’ve taken our whiteboard wish list and given it some structure;

Planting now (late Summer) –

BED 1 – Cucumbers, Lettuce & Strawberries

BED 2 – tomatoes have been staked

BED 3 –  Capsicum

BED 4 – (on fence line with all the north light) Passionfruit

Come late Autumn through till Winter we’ll compost the soil, plant out red onions for Ben, let the Roquet self seed everywhere and plant some Broad Bean seeds, but not anywhere near the onions.

 

 

This started out as a random conversation around the dinner table, but then it got me thinking.  I’m always on about how a small veggie garden

More

Climbing rose in a small garden

blog

Climbing roses are perfect for adding a burst of colour in a small garden.  Make the most of your vertical garden space by training climbers up the  boundary walls.  Use an old door frame or whatever else you can find to train your rose on.  Climbing roses flower more when trained horizontally so encourage your leaders across the frame.

Vertical colour
Vertical colour

Gardening in small gardens workshop

blog

Gardening in small gardens workshop is on again today. I will be talking about scale and proportion in built elements,  and in plants. What plants to use, case studies.