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August – Potatoes, Carrots….. and Elephants!
Hello, it’s been a long time since I had the time to sit down and let you know how the garden has been progressing through August. We have been harvesting everyday in the vegetable patch. I can’t remember a year where we have had such a good potato crop, both early...
No weight-watching for these WHOPPERS!
Champion pumpkin growing twins, Ian and Stuart Paton from Southampton are at it again! This year they have four pumpkin babies which are currently piling on a massive 60lb or 4 stone a day! The twins are well on the way to giving their record-breaking 160 stone...
National Allotment Week
So this week is National Allotment week, it brings back happy memories of my first allotment that we decided would be a wonderful idea ( myself and my partner at the time), we would be self sufficient in vegetables and it would be such fun to do! Oh my goodness….. We...
Storm Force Caterpillars and Losses Cut
There’s this story going around that there’s only a month or so left to go of summer before it fades to autumn. Well that’s handy as I was starting to tire of the endless heat haze and Long Island iced teas. No? Well, if reality has to get dragged into it, who else...
Pumpkin update: Tackling Powdery Mildew on Pumpkins.
Pests and diseases on crops are always a problem in the garden - and my Pumpkin crop is no exception, in the last few days, the leaves of my plants have unfortunately developed Powdery Mildew. Powdery mildew is easily identified by the powdery white spores on the...
Giving Giants a Go
Last year, I saw a feature on BBC News live from RHS Hyde Hall where Matthew Oliver had smashed the record for the largest pumpkin grown outdoors in the U.K. The giant weighed in at an incredible 605kg which is 95 stone in old money. Inspired, I thought next year I...
Home Grown Tomatoes
One of the main reasons for the increase in gardening activity at our house was to grow our own fruit and vegetables. As mentioned previously, we have four raised beds that have been neglected for a few years now and so it makes sense to restore and use them. They're...
Summer in Pembrokeshire!
Hello Everyone, What's happened to the summer sun? Honestly it's more like autumn in Pembrokeshire! The days are usually overcast, with a fair chance of a shower. The wind makes it impossible some days to open the greenhouse doors or windows for fear of damage, and...