cactus Making cacti (succulent plants) pots
There is a rock garden which used to be covered by orange lilies. We dug the lilies out last year and there are not many...
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cactus bean Planting Plan for 2021
We are making a plan for the main vegetable garden for 2021. Our biggest vegetable garden is almost square. The eastern ...
bok choy Can seeds germinate in coffee and tea grounds?
Some people use coffee and tea grounds for gardening. We have put them in our compost for years, but never used them its...
herbs Potting up Oregano
Last year we had two pots of oregano. In order to get them overwinter, we put one of them in the flowerbed at the end of...
compost I broke the shovel…
These are the rocks which I dug out Two days ago we finished moving all the compost that we had bought into the vegetabl...
cuttings Propagating plants by cuttings
We are trying to grow more flowers and trees with cuttings. This idea was also inspired by a BBC program called "Gardene...
flowers Making hanging flower baskets, and repotting the peppers
We make several hanging flower baskets every year. This spring, we also bought some flowers for making them as well as v...
bok choy Sowing Vegetables in the Garden
Our raised beds were not looking good because of the rotten wood on the edges so we changed them using cedar boards. Yes...
cuttings Redesigning the Front Garden
We started reorganising the front garden last year. Before that, a large part of it was taken over by orange lilies and ...
compost Transplantation of Spring Onion and Parsley
The spring onions which I am regrowing have grown into a decent size soI transplanted them in the ground. At the same ti...