The Growing Garden
Rooted in Nature, Music and Walks Through Many Gardens
We are positively weighed down – if deliciously – by ripe tomatoes coming from our tomato plants – not to mention the cooking apples from the tree in the main garden. And now the beans are in full flow! Meanwhile the squash (or are they courgettes?) are obviously on something pretty powerful as they are …
The last time you saw this planter, Sue was pricking out tiny chard seedlings on the right and setting radish, rocket and lettuce seeds. Now look at it! And this picture was taken several days ago. All of those little plants are now significantly bigger – so significantly much bigger that on Monday I am …
We were delighted to have a visit ten days ago from Ecologist Michael all ready to help us plant out our first seeds in our new raised beds! The seeds had come from Garden Therapist Shey (see her at Keep Calm Garden ) – thank you Shey – and initially we used the beetroot and …
A happy new year to all – and welcome to Phase 1 of the Growing Garden project…. (If you are new to the project, click back to our first post to see how we got here.) So – here we are, on a rather grey day just before Christmas – the full digging team! The …
The growing garden is a small allottment size piece of land beside my garden in Highgate. Once filled with beds and flowers, during the three years that I was working on the house it was abandoned to the builders – and then to the brambles. The brambles couldn’t believe their luck and made full use …
