Spring is here and it is time to clear the old crops and make way for the new, sowing starts in the polytunnel, a 50ft double-height plastic tunnel built into a drystone wall on a south facing terrace below the potager. The plant debris and weeds are first cleared and the earth lightly worked to [...]
Warming Walls
Stone walls can be used as protection for overwintering and early fowering plants and trees. During the day the stones absorb the heat from the sun and at night the heat radiates back out to keep the less frost hardy plants warm in winter and early spring. Walls can be used as a backdrop for plants that [...]
Chinese Greens
Also collectively referred to as, Oriental greens or Chinese brassicas, this group of plants really deserve their place in my kitchen garden and should be more widely grown. These leafy vegetables are fast growing, versatile and nutritious, easy to cultivate and taste delicious. This group of brassicas have done particularly well in our unheated polytunnel, [...]
New Lean-To Greenhouse
Protection for seedlings makes all the difference when raising your own plants so Rachel has built a wonderful lean-to greenhouse outside the potting shed/cellar in front of the house that will give protection in both winter and summer. I think it is great and it has already made my life easier. It did not cost [...]
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