Month: August 2024

Getting the yard ready for winter

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The How and Why of rising Jerusalem Artichokes

Spot the precise sunflower – most of these are Sunchokes (Helianthus tuberosus)My new discovery for the veg patch last yr was Jerusalem Artichokes, additionally referred to as Sunchokes. I grew them for the sunflowers, little determining of their many properly being benefits!I would resisted rising Jerusalem artichokes until the day…

Revisiting an immune boosting tea from the herb yard

And, lastly, there was tea …It’s most probably a bit early for the entire herbs on this tea to be on the market throughout the yard nonetheless as numerous my household and mates have colds in the meanwhile, it seems properly timed to revisit this delicious tea. Some readers would possibly…

April inside the Veg Patch

After a winter that appeared to go on for ever, I’ve barely started sowing and it already feels similar to the summer season season solstice is drawing near! Let’s study what’s happening inside the yard…Yep, it’s blossom time as soon as extra. The pear bushes in no way fail.Now that we’re…

Enhancing and re-nutrifying my clay primarily based soil with PeatFree mulches

Peat primarily based composts will in all probability be banned for residence markets from 2027 although commerce growers can use peat primarily based merchandise until 2030, within the occasion that they so need. That is good news for peat bogs and the wildlife they assist nonetheless would have been even…

The Metropolis Veg Patch: Prunella

As quickly as as soon as extra, Prunella vulgaris, aka Self Heal, has returned to the veg patch with renewed vigour. It’s a perennial, an enthusiastic self-seeder, low rising, edible, medicinal and a meals provide for bees. Sounds good, positive?Image by Google Creative Commons licence from Wallpaper FlareI sowed seeds…

Carry On sowing! Crops for autumn, winter and previous to sow NOW

It has been a fairly disastrous 12 months for veg rising in my patch and this morning, late July, it feels positively autumnal. (Not in an effective way.) Nonetheless I’ve been by the use of my seed packets and situated potential for quite a few late summer season sowings. By…

Perfecting the art work of rising huge gooseberries in a small home

This earlier week the ultimate of the gooseberries have been picked (a bit later than common, the local weather has been so unhelpful this 12 months) and now it’s time to reshape the vegetation with a summer time season pruning. This was alleged to be executed in early July nevertheless…

Once more throughout the kitchen with foraged Elderberries

Can it is that time of yr as soon as extra already? I’m merely ending off my summer time season batch of elderflower cordial and yesterday, as I walked home, I seen that my favourite spot for accumulating the elder tree‘s bounty was positively dripping with ripe elder berries. I’m…

Mid August inside the gardens

What’s occurring inside the yard this month ? Weeds, weeds, weeds! That’s what. And spiders … so many spiders. And because it feels similar to the mistaken time of yr for spiders to be stretching all through every plant inside the yard, I’m crashing by way of them each day.…

The Metropolis Veg Patch: As a result of the seasons flip

Lastly there’s a tangible feeling that winter is also transferring on. That’s less complicated to consider on a day like instantly when the photo voltaic is shining, the wind has dropped, skies are blue, snowdrops and hellebores are flowering and daffodils are pushing their means up via the soil –…

The Metropolis Veg Patch: My Frankenstein yard

A picture of my violets just because they’re so gorgeous What is going on on in my veg yard? My laziness inside the yard remaining yr is producing some sudden ends in that a couple of of the non-perennial crops have decided to regenerate and can be found once more to…

The Metropolis Veg Patch: Travels with my Clematis

A number of weeks once more I braved the night time rush hour commute on London’s Underground with a fairly beautiful and actually tall purple clematis bobbing about beneath my arm. I let 4 crowded trains go by sooner than I’ll get on board and even then struggled to appreciate…

And sow it begins – an early March exchange

Tulips have started to flower already!As we converse I’ve been questioning why spring is known as spring. Positive, I do know, my thoughts incessantly flies off at a tangent. The reply must be obvious nonetheless I actually like slightly little bit of etymology. In Earlier English ‘spring’ meant a welling…