The Vegetable Garden in June Despite the peculiar weather the vegetable garden is doing very well. We have been eating lettuce, new potatoes, strawberries, spring onions and carrots for the last few weeks. Today I have planted aubergines and sown 3 rows of swedes and some turnips. The tomatoes are now flowering well. This year as an experiment we have …
Planting more greens and root veg
New Planting I have been planning to plant more this weekend, but I need a bit of space. We had already planned to start digging up the new potatoes and after last nights winds here in the forest of dean they are looking a mite dishevelled so we will be starting on Friday to harvest them. We have broccoli ready …
Planting the pretty bits
Gardening in the Forest of Dean May Plantings I have been concentrating on the vegetable garden up until now, but the warm weather has encouraged us to get the planters filled up with the pretty flowers. We have planted impatiens , begonias , geraniums and most of the usual garden plants. The garden is certainly changing a lot now the …
A great time for gardeners
Gardening in the Forest of Dean This time of year is fantastic for gardening and gardeners. Last weeks cold snap has been replaced with warm sunny weather and we have been busy planting out in the garden. Our sweet peas and climbing fuchsias are big enough and as you can see we now have them out in various places in …
Oh dear Cinderford Council – @cinderfordtc
A couple of weeks back I emailed Cinderford council using the email on their web site which is clerk@ . It was a simple query asking why the minutes from meetings were not shown on their web site. As you can see from the picture the last entries were for 2015, so nothing for 2 years. Here is the text …
10 Reasons to Support Local Businesses
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 …