Welcome to the first instalment of the PLOT2PLATE series. There is nothing better than good food and when you’ve grown that good food yourself it’s even more satisfying, let alone tastier. As most will be aware if you follow my blog I have an allotment and a kitchen garden too, in which I grow my own…
Tag: Gardening
Groseeds……….. I think I love you!!
I think I’ve just fallen a little head over heels for the new seed kids on the block. I know everyone gets a little over excited about receiving their new seeds especially at the beginning of a brand new year, but there is something a little more special about these seeds and this seed provider….
Operation Cottage Garden
Ever since I can remember I have always had a weakness for Cottage gardens. If someone said to me picture the most beautiful garden ever, it most certainly wouldn’t be the many modern gardens of today with their contemporary lines and features, they just don’t do it for me they’re just too groomed and sleek….
Happy New Year, let’s save the world!
When I was a little girl I had this ambition that I was going to steal (yes I said steal, but I meant borrow) the milkman’s two tier milk float and fill it with lots of foods I helped my grandad grow and drive to Africa to feed all the starving people! I remember fondly the…
10 Amazing Annual Cutflowers I can’t live without + Giveaway!
If you read my previous blog “Beginners Guide to Growing Cutflowers” then you’ve most likely been waiting for this follow-up post, “Top 10 Annual Cutflowers I can’t Live Without”? Apologies for the delay, but here it is! As I mentioned in my previous post growing from seed and growing annuals are where you really get…
Beginners Guide to Growing Cut Flowers
It was requested by a couple of my online allotment buddies that I write a blog about growing cut flowers. That makes me sound like an expert, I can assure you I’m not, but I have been growing them for a few years now and I started off not knowing a single thing about it….
My Gardening Faux Pas
I have never claimed to be a professional or experienced gardener, although I have been doing it for some years now I still regard myself as an amateur. I have my successes and down right failures when it comes to growing, but I see gardening as a science and art. The conditions have a hell…
Garden Therapy (Literally)
Everyone’s digging for victory and I’m over here digging for therapy. Depression is something that’s becoming more and more common these days or should I say more widely accepted. I myself have suffered depression on and off since my early teens for many different reasons, I was bullied growing up, my parents split up,…
The Bohemian Raspberry 