This is our month-by-month guide to gardening. Enjoy!
- December Gardening Guide - The halls are decked and by now the garden and allotment are in tip top shape-earth dug, and richly fertilised, a blank canvas awaiting New Year inspiration. Icy winds and...
- November Gardening Guide - Last month’s riot of autumnal colour disappears in fog and mist as November drapes the world in grey. The harvest is over for the most part but there is still...
- October Gardening Guide - If August is green, the colour of October must surely be yellow or orange, for it is this month that brings along with the falling leaves, the harvest of squash...
- September Gardening Guide - September is a bittersweet month in the allotment. After the languid heat of summer and early harvest, the bluster of autumn bonfires will not be far behind. Hopefully you will...
- August Gardening Guide - ‘If the first week of August be warm, the winter will be white and long!’ says the old wife but not many of us will care about that as we...
- July Gardening Guide - July is when the hard work put in over the previous months literally bears fruit (and vegetables). It is with both these in mind that we turn our attention to...
- June Gardening Guide - In June, harvest salad greens, beetroot, onions, cauliflower, peas, turnips, carrots, fennel, garlic and broad beans. Midsummer’s night traditionally marks the end of asparagus season. Sow French and runner beans,...
- May Gardening Guide - Take time to sharpen your hoe as an ounce of prevention now with weeds will spare you a pound of cure a little further into summer. While pellets are always...
- April Gardening Guide - While the weather is cool, dig in a 5 or 6 centimetre layer of mulch in your beds and around your perennials, trees and shrubs. Use organic matter such as well rotted...
- March Gardening Guide - Sowing begins in earnest now. Mid-month or once the days have gone from lion to lamb, plant broad beans, early peas, carrots, lettuces, spinach, salad leaves, leeks and chard. Plant...