Gardening blog archive

About my garden

Our new house was built in 1936. It lies in a village in Jutland, Denmark, near the...

7 Mar, 2009
Johannah

Gardeners world magazine March 09

I have had a tip printed in this months edition. I have had the magazine for a while...

6 Mar, 2009
Treesandthi..

its a good job i forgot my wallet!

went out at lunch time to grab a sandwich at my local Lidl store. Can you guess the...

6 Mar, 2009
Seaburngirl

Garden Therapy

Hello everyone Am off work today because had to go Docs-have put some joint out in...

6 Mar, 2009
Gwendas

Ouch!!

just a quick note -went out to feed the hens this morning and found Penny had laid...

6 Mar, 2009
Ducky

Peppers!

Okay, so as you all may or may not know, I sowed some pepper seeds about a month...

6 Mar, 2009
Annidavison

Adding a little "charm"

Hi to all, While spring in England has undoubtedly now arrived, we here in Switzerland...

6 Mar, 2009
Lilycoton

Seed sowing day.

Hi, been to Spain for a week, had half good weather and half wet weather, we still...

5 Mar, 2009
Marge

Its finished

Well the greenhouse is up wooohooooooo

5 Mar, 2009
Adamg40

A bit of Fun !

Whiles sitting here counting down the day's (13 to go until I can start walking)...

5 Mar, 2009
Sueb

Yoghurt pots and Toilet roll tubes

My collections of pots and tubes and plastic bottles are going very well now, it...

5 Mar, 2009
Ducky

MY OLD GARDEN.

I thought you might like to see some more photos of my old garden... It was quite...

5 Mar, 2009
Hollyeves

All year round vegetables

I found a great organic vegetable initiative online. I was looking for organic vegetables...

5 Mar, 2009
Annafratelli

I can stand the rain

It has rained again overnight, but has eased off this morning. The great thing about...

5 Mar, 2009
Peet

Baby Steps

Encouraged as I was by the comments and support left by my last blog (yesterday)...

4 Mar, 2009
Tigerlilly182

Update and photos

Wednesday 4th March 09 – Hello everyone that reponded to my question about soakaway...

4 Mar, 2009
Rkda

pretty woman

just a little update on the portraite im drawing

4 Mar, 2009
Noseypotter

New Shoots, Bulbs and Seed Sowing. I Love This Time Of Year!

To follow on from my blog in January ('Itching to Get Started In The Garden') I've...

4 Mar, 2009
Paulthegard..

But Rhododendrons need ACID soil...don't they?

Well I thought so, anyway, until last year when I saw a sign at a Garden Centre which...

4 Mar, 2009
Spritzhenry

thank you all for the warm welcome

Hope I'm in the right place for writing this? Haven't been on again as much as usual...

4 Mar, 2009
Borrowers

those tempting little packets of seeds

This morning, a thick fat package arrived and instantly, my heart skipped a beat....

4 Mar, 2009
Greenmaxine

Going Potty

Well I have decided to go ahead, dig up my bit of front lawn and create a potager...

4 Mar, 2009
Ducky

Weather and other things

We had such wind last night (outside) It's blown a lot of the daffs flat, and three...

4 Mar, 2009
Daff

I'm odd?

Okay, so I have my partners family round (all farmers) and I'm pricking out my seedlings...

4 Mar, 2009
Annidavison

What a difference a day makes.

I'm new to Grows on You (see-I haven't even started to automatically call it GOY....

4 Mar, 2009
Peet

Our day

Well what a day to say the least,our first greenhouse got delivered today at 10.30am...

3 Mar, 2009
Adamg40

Seed sowing and sand

I have spent quite a bit of the day sowing seeds. I have been through my tin and...

3 Mar, 2009
Treesandthi..

variety

Halcyon it is then! I've also heard of using copper as well, but never tried it....

3 Mar, 2009
Greylady

water feacture

just started my friends water feacture doesnt look much but we did well realy.my...

3 Mar, 2009
Noseypotter

HOSTAS

One of my favourites is Hosta. In order to lessen snail damage (I see their shells...

3 Mar, 2009
Greylady

New Developments

Being both and indoor and outdoor gardner and being very new at the whole experience,...

3 Mar, 2009
Tigerlilly182

Naming my plants

I am trying to do a list of my plants on GOY And I have lost a lot of the labels...

3 Mar, 2009
Donnah

Soil Problems

As an old remedey I want to use Jeyes Fluid to disinfect the soil in one of my borders. Does...

3 Mar, 2009
Marlin1143

MAGNOLIAS.........

This is the 4th year of being in my current house, before that we had a small walled...

3 Mar, 2009
Hollyeves

Early March 2009 - thinking about the summer

The succession of winter bulbs is well under way-I still have a few snowdrops in...

3 Mar, 2009
Peet

Reclaiming The Silver Birch garden - part 1

This little bit of garden originally had a very old apple tree in it, when we first...

3 Mar, 2009
Pamd

location

I'm located in Okehampton, a very beautiful (but wet) area.

3 Mar, 2009
Greylady

Blank palate

Hello everyone. I've just moved here from the US and have inherited a totally empty...

3 Mar, 2009
Greylady

£1 Shops

Had a day in Yarmouth yesterday. I called into the pound shop. I was really surprised...

3 Mar, 2009
Donnah

polytunel part two

doors are now on. then with the help of brother Richard a raised bed was built...

3 Mar, 2009
Sandra

My New plot

I have just started a new venture. I have fenced off the boundary of the land that...

3 Mar, 2009
Rkda

just bought some great plants!

Just got some real bargains for summer colour as I dont want to rely on summer bedding...

2 Mar, 2009
Lindaloganb..

Sowing the seeds part 2

Sunday 2nd March It was the second weekend of really nice weather, so decided to...

2 Mar, 2009
Christieclan

Back in Time for the Hellebores

Just got back from my holiday in Mexico (yes thanks, I had a great time). Although...

2 Mar, 2009
Andrewr

Sowing the seeds

Saturday 21st February Well, the Christie’s have finally started to grow their own...

2 Mar, 2009
Christieclan

My cherry tree arrived!

I got outside again today which is a rare treat at the moment!My back was not to...

2 Mar, 2009
Lindaloganb..

Potential Disaster

Ok that is a bit overdramatic! Went down to the veg garden to dig it all over and...

2 Mar, 2009
Ducky

Garden Projects 2009 Part 4 - How to Build A Willow Te-Pi

Well It's all go in my garden at the moment, what with extentions to the beds and...

2 Mar, 2009
Majeekahead

Rotorvator

My partner and I are attempting to use a big rotorvator this coming weekend, the...

2 Mar, 2009
Forkhandles69

2009 - The story "begins"

So this year I'm going to take it seriously. For Christmas I got one of those books...

2 Mar, 2009
Xanadu819