Just like Dealing? I know that autumn is looming. The French partridges have started sunning themselves on my low stone walls and they’re so tame and plump, having been reared in cages for dare I say the shooting season, that they only fly off when I’m feet away. They’re the Liz Taylors of the game […]
The facts are incontrovertible, the consequences are devastating, and the alternatives are effective and easily available – so the continued use of peat compost brings shame on us all. This could end up being one of the most ill-tempered, unforgiving and shame-flinging pieces I have ever written. I’m not happy about it, but it must […]
There’s been a lot of publicity about the new Pokémon Go game recently and I have to admit I feel a bit torn. It’s just great that this game is getting people outside in the fresh air and maybe, just maybe getting more exercise, but I do think it is a little bit sad that […]
Early greenhouse frenzies of sowing tomatoes, pricking them out, and then balancing their increasingly contradictory needs for space and warmth seem a distant memory now. That was what it took to get them started, but now that they have found their feet my tomato gardening has taken a distinctly laissez faire (if not plain lazy) […]
From mid-summer until November, rhododendrons and camellias are forming flower buds for next year’s display, so it’s essential that the compost or soil around them doesn’t dry out at any point, if it does they simply won’t form buds or will demonstrate their disapproval by shedding the ones that have already formed. Check your plants […]
