Category: garden
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Horse Manure For Sale!
I help out at a stable near my home, mostly shovelling manure really, but I really feel for the couple running the place. They’re lovely, practical animal-lovers, but their two horses produce more manure than they can shift half the time! So, I’m here to advertise. At 50p per bag, if anyone in the Portsmouth…
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Mystery Plant!
While a lot of my seeds haven’t been taking, I’m so glad to see that these ones have. The only downside: I have no clue what they are. They could be tomatoes, chillies, lemons, aubergines, peppers, or so many other things. I know a lot of plants look like this at this stage, but whatcha…
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Goddamn, Why Won’t They Take?
I have a few seed trays where a) I have no clue what I put in there, and b) none of it’s even growing… It’s a little rage inducing. I was trying to overwinter these, goddamn it. I truly hate when these garden fails hit. But it’s something important for all preppers out there to…
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Am I Actively Growing Nettles? Hell Yes!
Funnily enough, my grow beds are the only place in my garden where the stinging nettles grow. You’d think I’d be ripping them out from the get-go, but I love nettles! They feed your garden, and if you use them right, they feed you. Pick the leaves, fry ’em up in some butter with some…
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The Good Neighbors: A Beginner’s Guide to Companion Planting
Gardens, it turns out, have a social life. The way we tend to picture a vegetable garden: tidy rows, one crop per bed, everything in its place, is actually a fairly recent and very human invention. Left to themselves, plants grow in communities. They share resources, signal to each other, attract or repel insects, and…
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Photo time
did a quick water of the grow areas and took pictures as I went for here and my garden journal. Next month is supposed to bring us back to cold and snow. Will see how this all works out! spring peas. hard to tell but these plants are nearly a foot tall this is my…
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The Mini-Greenhouse
Upon unzipping the door, I was hit by a wave of heat akin to something out of Spain or Greece. Whatever’s in here is in serious need of attention. So the only green thing I can see is some sorely neglected poached eggplant flowers. I need to find them a home, ASAP. I’m going to…
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My Failures
Hi all! Now this post is going to highlight how easy it is to fail or make mistakes with gardening. You see the cardboard egg case? That was meant to be to help aubergine seeds start to grow. The problem? I didn’t put them in a supportive tray. When the rain came, the whole thing…
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First Thing’s First: Water
Morning all! How goes it? The first thing I want to talk about is water. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’ve found that every time I’ve used tap water my plants have hated it. Really, truly, thoroughly hated it. They’ll die, or they won’t bother to grow at all. It’s horrendous. I hate…
