2022 is here, and it is a start of a new gardening season. It’s time to get on with plans for the year and start as I mean to go on.
Category: 2021
Reflecting on 2021 and looking to 2022
2021 2021, like the year before, was disrupted by COVID-19, lockdowns and supply shortages but not by building work. This was the first growing season since our extension was completed allowing me to start seeing the space I will develop over the coming years. The Garden I have started to segment my front and back…
Autumn Video
Autumn has arrived and its getting cooler. Autumn provides a time for reflection, planning and keeping up with tasks.
Holkham Hall Walled Gardens
Walled gardens have been a staple of large British stately homes for hundreds of years. In times when storing and transporting food was not easy, it was down to these households to produce the food they would eat and also the medicines they took to treat ill health. While walled gardens can trace their heritage…
Preparing Autumn and Winter Garden Crops
Summer is edging towards Autumn, and it is time to start getting Autumn and Winter crops ready. New YouTube video published; please like, subscribe and comment.
Time to relax?
Summer has made an appearance here in the UK but is it time to sit back, relax and enjoy my garden after long months of work? In this video I explore what summer does to my garden and whether I can slow down to relax. Please like and comment on the video, and subscribe to…
Wells-Next-The-Sea
It has been effortless to stay at home over the past year, which, for many reasons, has been great. I’ve been able to get on with the house and garden, and I have been really pleased with how things have progressed. It is still essential to get out and search for inspiration. This weekend my…
5 Tips for Watering Your Garden
I have been trying to improve my gardening techniques to produce more and to have healthier plants. During a recent spell of hot weather I was struggling to keep keep my plants looking well, so I took a look at how and when I was watering. The YouTube video below share 5 tips I picked…
Adding chickens to the garden
About two months ago, we headed out to a small farm just outside an idyllic Norfolk village. It was the sort of village that would have been written about in classic English literature, no paths, single-lane roads built for horse and cart, and cows grazing the common. The location would not be amiss in a…
My Gardening Journey 