Having kept us well supplied with helpings through the year, the kale plants have reached the end of their productive life. This is the last of the plants. I will snip off the remaining leaves to cook with tonight’s tea. The plants have now been pulled out and ready to chop into the compost bin…
Category: Garden tips
Autumn Wreaths
Enjoyed foraging the woodland floor for fallen leaves, drugs and seed heads. I found a large variety of shapes, sizes and colours. Using some garden twine they were easily tied to a frame made from garden pruning’s and ivy. They look great, cost nothing and will go into the Garden compost when the season is…
compost!
It’s that time of year when I mulch the Garden borders with my home made compost. My Ecomax composter is full of gardener’s “gold” Through the year all the plant material, and grass cuttings that I have accumulated from the garden, have been placed in my Ecomax composter, together with a mix of bits of…
free mulch
In autumn I clear the fallen leaves from my small lawn. I put these in the compost bin or put them in a bag and leave them to turn into leaf mould. I have a spare bin that us perfect for the job. These were collected from the garden last year. This bin was a…
dill
Having sown dill seeds earlier this summer in paper pots, these grew well and were planted out in the garden to attract hover flies and other beneficial insects to feast on aphids. Not only do the flowers look great, when they die back I am rewarded with a harvest if dill seeds which I can…
one year on
I realise it’s been a year since I started this blog, tracking my progress and sharing ideas on cutting back on every day plastic waste. In the process this blog has evolved into a baking and gardening blog, not by intention, simply because home made food and growing some produce at home helps to cut…
too chilly for chillies
A cold north wind is battering the garden today, so I\’ve had to keep my small pepper plants indoors today. Even though they are still small plants, there are the beginnings of flower buds. Mad as it sounds, I’m going to pick these off. The reason is to stimulate the plants to put on more…
herby delights
Seed trays sprinkled with dill, coriander and basil seeds 2 weeks ago and kept in my small greenhouse are emerging. The dill and coriander are worth growing just for their large flower heads which are attractive and act like magnetic platforms for beneficial insects. Not only do bees love them but hoverflies, lacewings, ladybirds and…
plastic free salad leaves
For a plastic free and cheaper alternative to buying bags of mixed salad leaves, I’m going to grow some cut and come again mixed leaves. I have re used an old wooden crate that had Clementines in, and made some drainage holes in the bottom. Last weekend I filled it with some sieved garden soil…
kale ready for picking
Keep netted to protect from pigeons and butterflies – I have other things in the garden especially for them This morning I checked on my trough of kale, planted as tiny plugs in the Autumn. They are now ready for picking. If you take a few leaves from the bottom of the stalk of each…