An Englishman's Garden Adventures
Here’s how I grew 30 Charentais melons in a narrow greenhouse bed just 5 ft long and 1 ft deep. Charentais are a fragrant variety of cantaloupe or musk melon, bred in France in the 1920s. Typically they are more difficult to …
The neat lines of well trimmed box hedging contribute so much to a garden. By contrast they seem to emphasise the form of adjacent plants whilst providing a direct link to the formal lines of nearby paving and brickwork. The …
▲ The box balls in front have just been clipped, but the large one at the rear waits its turn. For good results you will need really sharp shears, one-handed shears or garden scissors for detail and some kind of …
A traditional starting point for training climbers on walls and fences is a system of tensioned horizontal wires. Ideally these wires should provide a permanent structure that needs little maintenance over the years, whilst creating a firm fixing for tendrils, shoots, branches …
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Recently we had some friends over for a lunch party and without prompting, two of the male guests, (why is it a bloke thing? I don’t know why it’s a bloke thing, but it’s a bloke thing) quite independently, gazed at …
Carrots as a main crop are well worth growing. They can be temperamental, but once you get the hang of it you can grow all the family needs for six months of the year. Carrots are not a posh crop like asparagus or melon, …
Fan-trained pear ‘Concorde’ (July 2018) How I Trained A Concorde Pear FanYear on Year Development In this post you can see: How my fan-trained pear started as a young-freshly trained new fruit tree How I planted and trained it initially …
Below I’ll show you ten tricks that refreshed my woodland garden and transformed the drab late-summer muddle of seed heads and dying foliage into a crisp, minimalist space, calm and stylish… By late August many of the plants that have provided colour throughout …