Support your local business I have always felt that it is very important to support local businesses and I do practice what I preach. More on that later but here are a few reasons you should too. 1 Local Economy Local businesses are the backbone of our economy and shopping at local businesses is much better for the economy of …
Exploring the forest of dean
Finding things in the Forest of Dean The forest of Dean is a beautiful area, partly in Gloucestershire but bordered by Herefordshire and very close to Wales. It has always been one of my favourite areas and we have now lived in Cinderford for 3 years. Of course it isn’t just the lovely countryside, there are hundreds of great small …
Potting On
Gardening has been a real joy this last week. Today I have been out in the sunshine potting on. We have re potted climbing fuschias , sweet peas, spring onions and strawberries. I have also planted runner bean seeds and some climbing french beans, so hopefully the next few weeks should see them coming up. New potatoes are springing up …
Compost is the fuel for your garden
We have now been gardening here for nearly a year and I did start a compost heap. Now looking at it it doesn’t look terribly wonderful, but we have never stopped adding to it so the top layers are really bound to look like that. So I took the top layer off and started shoveling out the compost and used …
Zen and the art of Gardening
The Benefits of Gardening Many people have written and spoken of the benefits of gardening on health from newspapers to the national health service, but most of them only mention the physical side. I’m not decrying that, naturally good physical health is vital to us all and even just pottering is beneficial, but there is more to be gained than …
Forest of Dean Events
Events in the Forest of Dean Find events in The Forest of Dean, what’s on in The Forest of Dean and things to do in The Forest of Dean with our events calendar . We now have a calendar of forest of dean events. Like our directory it is 100% free. Just get in touch if you would like your event added. …
Early planting has paid off
Planting early vegetables in the garden It is of course always a gamble to plant vegetables early as a late frost can damage your plants, but as we were so late last year we decided to take a chance and so far it has paid dividends. You can see from the picture on the left some of our early carrots. We …