June Flowers in the Cutting Patch…

I have been a bit useless with the cutting garden this year.  Pretty much none of the Zinnias have survived (there should be Red, Elegans Sprite Mix and Giant Dahlia Mix) and I never got the Scabiosa in so there are a few gaps.  I also only netted one bed so a lot of the [...]

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Fruit…

  We have been away for the last week and have come back to lots of ripe fruit which is quite exciting.  I grow the following in my garden: Blackcurrant – Delbard Robusta Redcurrant – Red Lake Red Gooseberry – Hinnomaki Cherry – Lapins, Colt Strawberry (Alpine) – Mignonette Rhubarb – Champagne & Timberly Early [...]

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Powdery mildew…

Every year the garden suffers quite badly from powdery mildew. It generally starts on the flowers (the marigolds first, then the sweet peas, roses etc) and eventually I get it on all my cucurbits (squash, melons, cucumbers and courgettes). My understanding is that that there are hundreds of versions of PW and they are type [...]

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June eating…

  The potatoes are ready, they flowered a couple of weeks back and today I lifted the bottom part of my potato planter so see a lovely white Charlotte potato all ready to eat, so I fished about some more and managed to pull out enough for the boys tea.  I love this method of [...]

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Garlic…

Last year I planted garlic for the first time.  I ordered the Autumn Planting Garlic from Thompson & Morgan in late Autumn of 2007, only to realise that I had missed that years send out and I had in fact placed a very early order for Autumn 2008 – duh!  So I ordered Garlic Lover [...]

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June’s Fragrant Flowers…

                          The Allium ‘Purple Sensation’ is already gone although the other alliums are coming into flower.  There are touches of red in the borders to add to the blues and purples of May but the main flowers right now are the wonderfully fragrant [...]

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