Natural gardening adventures
The good thing about having a family that is also really into gardening, is that you get all sorts of plants for free! Over the past two months, my parents travelled down twice to visit us and their car was filled with plants taken from their own and my sister's gardens, or grown from cuttings…
This year, I sowed my chillies between February 23 and March 14. Let's have a look today, two or three months on, to see how they've been getting on in this cold, wet spring, before we pot them on! As discussed previously, I lost a lot of chillies this year due to circumstances and, admittedly,…
Since we now have a house, we also have a lawn. A big lawn. A VERY big lawn. And lawns need to be mowed - right? Overe here, there are many calls for people to leave their lawns unmowed in April or May. This is because Taraxacum officinale, otherwise known as the common dandelion ('paardenbloem'…
Peppers & Poppies 