GIY blog – berry harvest
Ah, July. The happy month of fruit harvests! Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, gooseberries,currants. The apples ripening on the...
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- Jul 12, 2015
Ladybirds & blackfly
At our GIY meeting today at Sarah’s house (thank you for the lovely tea Sarah!) we wandered on to her allotment lamenting the huge amount...
- Jun 23, 2015
End of June on the GIY plot
We’re just past the longest day and still no real summer to speak of. It’s still very dry though, despite last night’s downpour. I’ve...
- May 18, 2015
May in the garden
It’s been so busy this month I haven’t had time to write my blog! We have had one Growers’ Market and then, last weekend, the Food and...
- Mar 25, 2015
Let’s get growing!
The March Transition Tuesday was all about how to start growing your own fruit and veg in a small area and it’s worth summarising the key...
- Feb 21, 2015
Grow It Yourself – February blog
It’s time to sow seeds of tomatoes, chillis and peppers indoors to get them off to a flying start. Chillis especially take a long time to...
- Jan 14, 2015
GIY blog – January 2015
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Yes I know it’s only January but there are still things you gardeners can do. I have just pruned my gooseberries (feeling...
- Dec 2, 2014
Keeping chickens to the highest welfare standards
Among the various presentations at the 2014 Soil Association conference, I wanted to bring back and share Jessica Stokes’ study.(1) She...
- Oct 11, 2014
Slug Wars – The Finale
It’s well into October now and the slugs are still active so you can’t let up just yet! I have been experimenting with different beers in...
- Sep 6, 2014
Elderberry Rob
Now is the time to make elderberry rob, a useful addition to your medicine (or drinks) cabinet. Scientific studies have validated the...
- Aug 30, 2014
Beetroot & chocolate brownies
This recipe for when you’ve got a glut of beetroot has been submitted by Claire. She says you can’t taste the beetroot at all as it gets...
- Aug 18, 2014
Too many… courgettes?
This year has been the year of the courgette as far as I’m concerned. Three plants has been about two too many at this household – this...
- Aug 17, 2014
GIY August – The harvest begins!
But first, an up-date on the war on slugs: our little mucosy friends seem to have slowed down a bit with all this fabulous summer heat...
- Jul 8, 2014
Grow It Yourself – Slug Wars Part II: This time it’s personal
Despite massive attempts to rid my garden of slugs, using mostly ‘death by drowning in beer’ which is very effective, I have still lost...
- Jun 5, 2014
Grow It Yourself – June
By now your veg patch and fruit bushes should be flourishing, if the slugs haven’t ravaged the lot! It can be like a war zone out there,...
- May 7, 2014
Grow It Yourself – May
May came in with a ground frost which killed the nasturtiums but not my runner beans, which are still alive and kicking in the veg plot!...
- Apr 15, 2014
Grow It Yourself – April
Apologies for the lateness of the April GIY blog, I’ve been too busy planting and potting on my tomato seedlings and other newly sprouted...
- Mar 2, 2014
Grow It Yourself – March
March has to be the month when it all kicks off in the garden and the greenhouse. The weather can be very unpredictable though so you...
- Feb 11, 2014
Sustainable Gardening in LGC
Last week a few TTL’ers went to the Hub on Station Road to meet with Elizabeth Towler (Environment & Landscape Officer from the LGC...
- Feb 2, 2014
Grow It Yourself – February
I really must quote from a pamphlet I found in my Dad’s desk; a facsimile of “The Gardener’s Monthly Directions etc” published in 1688...
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