Gardening blog archive

Shrinking plants

I must admit i haven't been in the greenhouses for a few days, but yesterday i spent...

31 Oct, 2007
Marksbegonias

I love my garden

I love to gardening and I am still a beginer of gardening and I dont know the name...

30 Oct, 2007
Marieballs

Gravel...

Having just moved house I have inherited a front garden that was gravel covered plastic....

28 Oct, 2007
Joy

getting ready for next year

I have just spent an hour or two in the garden clearing up I have come to the conclusion...

27 Oct, 2007
Maisymulcher

Downtime

Sorry everyone if you are having trouble accessing Grows on You. The datacenter that...

26 Oct, 2007
Ajay

Autumn clearing

Am in the process of clearing my garden up a bit before winter hits. Have put in...

25 Oct, 2007
Mikijo

Productive vegetables - your ideas please

This year I think my chili plant has been my favourite; I love cooking with chilies...

25 Oct, 2007
Peter

Overwintering onions and garlic

I'm week behind again on developments in my garden but as I spent Saturday at RHS...

22 Oct, 2007
Peter

caterpillers gone

Its amazing aweek away come back now caterpiller free thank you jack frost. I wish...

20 Oct, 2007
Maisymulcher

A Taste of Autumn at RHS Wisley

In case anyone else is going I thought I'd let you know that I'm heading to A Taste...

19 Oct, 2007
Peter

flowers for borders and cats

I am looking after a garden for the first time and I am now faced with filling the...

19 Oct, 2007
Charlie1976

Introducing myself

My garden is in need of some TLC and so joining this site has already given me inspiration...

19 Oct, 2007
Gemma

Tomato Plants

This year I grew a variety of tomato plants called Vanessa. I have been growing...

18 Oct, 2007
Graham

The Story of a new border - continued.

Back in September, we started to create a new border in our back garden, and I wrote...

16 Oct, 2007
Spritzhenry

Flipping foxes!

If anyone's got any tips on how to stop foxes digging and pooping in my vegetable...

15 Oct, 2007
Seanmcmanus

Facebook testers

Hello, Facebook for gardeners. Whowodathunkit? Any of you members of Facebook? Want...

15 Oct, 2007
Ajay

bean gone

I always think when you take up your bean plants, winter is just around the corner....

14 Oct, 2007
Maisymulcher

Harvesting onions and chilies

Today was harvest day! After months of neglect, the onions, chilies and red peppers...

13 Oct, 2007
Peter

Love your garden?

Shop carefully for your seeds, save seeds, swop seeds. check out this link http://www.earthportals.com/free.html I...

12 Oct, 2007
Tussiemussie

Butternut squash

If like me you have grown any a helpful tip when peeling put them in the micro wave...

12 Oct, 2007
Dibber

no flowers

Oh dear I have looked at all of your pretty sites all covered with pics of flowers.There...

12 Oct, 2007
Maisymulcher

What a summer

Well, this hasn't been our best summer in the garden. Last year we grew so many...

11 Oct, 2007
Seanmcmanus

RHS Great Autumn Show

The RHS Great Autumn Show held at Horticultural Halls, Westminster was titled ‘Harvest...

11 Oct, 2007
Joey

Garden vegetables for winter

I'm afraid this blog is late, as are some of the tasks I've been doing in the garden....

9 Oct, 2007
Peter

Spring Bulbs

While shopping in Lidl I came across these lovely spring bulbs and at 99p a packet...

9 Oct, 2007
Weemamabell

Seed Collecting - practical

Well, the experiment has begun, I headed out (thankfully before the rain!) and went...

9 Oct, 2007
Joey

At Last

I've finished digging and planning the garden, the plants and bulbs are in, now all...

9 Oct, 2007
Grindle

NOW'S THE TIME TO GRAB A JAPANESE MAPLE BARGIN!

Hello everyone, As a lot of you know by now I love collecting Japanese Maples, and...

7 Oct, 2007
Sodapopklc

Compost bins

I started to put all the junk mail and old newspapers through the 'shredder' and...

5 Oct, 2007
Justvera

compost making

has any one any ideas on how to make dalek type compost bins produce nice sweet smelling...

5 Oct, 2007
Maisymulcher

maisymulcher introduces herself

hello fellow growers, I am new to computers so you will have to bear with me. But...

4 Oct, 2007
Maisymulcher

Collecting Seeds

So the Grows on You seed exchange is up and running and there are some fantastic...

3 Oct, 2007
Joey

Seed Exchange

You asked for it... and your wish is our command. I am pleased to say we have just...

2 Oct, 2007
Ajay

Fish still feeding

For those with a pond with fish I have just been told about giving them an orange....

1 Oct, 2007
Dibber