Exciting new ideas for next year. By digging up several spreading clumps of perennials I’ve now got a few big open spaces of lovely soil to plant something NEW, something DIFFERENT. The post Making changes in my cottage garden appeared first on London Cottage Garden.

The satisfaction of throwing your own homemade compost onto your borders is a great feeling especially as it takes no work whatsoever - just an ability to chuck loads of stuff into a heap. The post Making compost is so easy – give it a try appeared first on London Cottage Garden.

I had thought making compost from all kinds of organic material was a doddle but I've found out how it can go wrong and make a wet, slimy, woody mess that would take far too long to decompose left as it is so I had to start again. The post Compost mistakes – it’s not so easy appeared first on...

I love everything about hardy geraniums and I now buy them online from the Cranesbill Nursery who grow a huge variety and sell big healthy plants with 1.5 litre rootballs. These plants are fantastic value and if you like the cottage garden style you wouldn't want to be without them. The post...

Nature is taking over my patch, specifically my brick paving which could look fabulous if I power washed it more often but I'm just not getting round to it. I'm put off by the mixture of water and electrical cables everywhere and so am trying to make my peace with it being black and mossy. Let's...

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I have an overabundance of lettuce, so I put it out on a table by my mailbox. It disappears fast. There is escarole, broadleaf and frissee in the left box and lettuce in the right one. The post today’s harvest first appeared on Skippy’s Vegetable Garden.

My 4th of July harvest is escarole and basil. I ended up with way too much, so this is the box I put out to share with my neighbors. I thought the big heads of escarole looked nice broken in half and tied with a string. This way the blanched inner leaves show. In past... The post 4th of July...

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I love it when I can bring in a basket filled with all sorts of vegetables. Today I have bok choy, round cabbage, Chinese cabbage, broccolini, radicchio, some red oak leaf lettuce, pickling cucumbers, and summer squashes: yellow, patty pan and zucchini. I think there is some basil in there too...

This is my garlic harvest!! Plus a few onions and some dill. I am pleased with my garlic this year. About 70 nice big heads. I will wash them, then let then dry in the sun a day or so, and then trim the roots and stems. This is a great variety of garlic. It... The post today’s harvest –...

My first eggplants of the season!! I am excited to harvest these. Eggplants have trouble growing in my garden because of flea beetles. Last year I had didn’t get any eggplants, though I planted a dozen plants. The leaves had more holes than green, the plants barely grew, and no fruit. I tried...

Oh my goodness! So much bounty from the garden. I used harvests from this past week today to make two pickle recipes as well as cucumber salad and sauteed zucchini for dinner tonight. The post today’s harvest first appeared on Skippy’s Vegetable Garden.

I have buckets full of beautiful red tomatoes now! It’s amazing we get through the whole rest of the year without these glorious garden fresh tomatoes. My tomatoes ripened quite a bit later this year than previous years, but it looks like I’ll make up for that by having LOTS!! This year I have...

I harvested bit of broccoli (Marathon) and cilantro today from under the covers of my winter low tunnel. The tunnel is about 4 feet high and protected with three layers of winter row cover and a top layer of green house plastic. It’s pretty cozy in there. I have never grown winter broccoli...