If you had space in the greenhouse, and time on your hands, you may well have sown your sweet peas in autumn. They are very happy with this treatment, and will put down good roots over winter and be ready to produce good early flowers this year. If, like me, you did not find the […]
Jean Vernon is starting the year with fresh intentions, determined to be prepared to grow and ready to sow. Community spirit It’s funny how good deeds have a way of rewarding you. In the midst of food shortages in 2020 and the COVID lockdown I’d made a real effort to grow more from seed and […]
When the city has only the colors of brick, slush, and concrete, green is precious. That’s why we plant evergreens. Just about every yard I see has some evergreen tree or shrub. There are tiny tidy boxwoods in pots. There are towering spruces. There are rows and rows of arborvitaes, the go-to plant for privacy […]
It is not always practical to grow everything from seed, so make a list of plants you intend to sow and those to be bought as plug plants. Plug plants save time and space in the greenhouse and heating costs, too. Once you have placed your orders, write the labels for the seed trays, put […]
Growing Peanuts in your greenhouse is an excellent way to get children interested. Pea, Ground or Monkey nuts are known to kids everywhere, if not as fresh nuts then roasted salted ones and certainly their famous butter. Actually Arachis hypogaea is not a nut from a tree but a member of the Pea family, somewhat […]
