Late Summer Garden: Easy and Cheap Gardening Tips

Has your late summer garden seen better days? If your outdoor paradise is getting a little ragged, and you would like some easy and cheap gardening tips to get it back into shape in time for fall, keep reading! Most gardens, no matter how well they are designed will have periods without a lot of [...]

Garlic roots and fennel shoots

The good news and bad news from Branch Hill It feels like glorious summer out there. Though I still feel a bit short changed to have passed the summer solstice with so few beautiful days. Yesterday I place in the kohl rabi and beetroot in 2 small squares, then watered the emerging seedlings.

Stumped? Mature manure and unruly jasmine

How can I make this dung usable? Plus my jasmine’s not climbing I recently purchased some bags of stable manure from a roadside site, but found it to be pretty fresh, which I?understand is not suitable for applying to my garden

Alys Fowler: Sowing biennial seed, plus beat the beet leaf miner

For swathes of flowers that won’t cost a fortune sow biennial seed now, and protect your Swiss chard from this devastating fly There are many ways to?live and die in the plant world, but how often reproduction happens is set in stone?– either once (monocarpic) or over and over again (polycarpic), like an apple tree. Monocarpic plants flower, set seed and die.

Alys Fowler: The secrets to success in the shade, and combating carrot fly | Gardening

If your plot is shrouded in shade, don’t despair – all manner of tough plants will thrive there, even some fruit crops. Plus how to beat carrot fly Two years ago, I started a tiny street garden with friends. It’s a trim spot between the shade of two lime trees

Readers recommend: Songs about flowers

Last week we wanted minimal lyrics, this week it’s as florid, or even as floral, as you like There was a brief moment on the 10 words or fewer thread in which I imagined we might go a whole week without a single, solitary Bob Dylan nom. I feared that if such an event came to pass, the foundations of the world would start to shake, but fortunately somebody chipped in with All the Exhausted Horses and life continued as normal

Jolly brollies | Dan Pearson

Aromatic and graceful, umbellifers will self-seed in such a way that you never know where they’ll pop up next The cow parsley is a well-named plant, titled several times over, and understandably so. It is a mainstay of shady places, and primeval in the spring young foliage looks very much like its culinary namesake

It’s in the bag

Summer crops coming on strong but what to do with the giant chicories? Finally the summer allotment is taking shape.

The Weather in Cascadia: A Makeover

In party of spring, I have eggplants sprouting in the windowsill and a garden full of little seedlings, inactivity to become my food for the summer. I decided it was time to give this space a makeover , and I’m glad that it coincided …

In the garden this week: Dahlias and basil

Don’t tempt fate too much, but it looks like the frost has gone. So get planting… Copper-bottom dahlias Plant out your dahlias now, whether tubers or plants.

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