Notes from Ed’s Shed 2 Here is another video clip from our garden
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 …
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 …
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 …