This is the time when last years stock is being sold off by garden centre’s so if you fancy saving money on new plants, now is a really good time to visit. Whilst they might not look great now and to convince you, I have bought six plants this week and we will see how they are looking as the year progresses.
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Thanks to the Internet you can enjoy gardening TV programmes from around the world so if you have a spare half hour, here are a few programmes you might like to try and catch.
Garden Ninja’s YouTube Channel You will find Lee Burkhill’s enthusiasm infectious when you take yourself over to his Garden Ninja’s YouTube Channel. It is full of interesting and engaging short videos on a wide range of topics. Definitely recommended. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuhMHrXyf2bvga2Mq0DJvwQ
Bear with me on this as I am in the process of writing up details (with pictures) of various local gardens that are worth visiting.
Make use of that time when you are digging over a plot and your mind wanders off to listen to gardening podcast. Here is a small selection of a few I like to listen to. I have also included a list of some others you might like to try.
With no shortage of gardening and horticultural websites to visit this list could end up being very long indeed however I am going to just jot down those websites I regularly visit or blogs I think worth reading.
It is always interesting wandering around gardens of big houses and the vegetable plots in particular are always a great place to see how others do things. One area of creativity is different ways people support their tomatoes. And so when we went over to Stow Gardens recently (https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/stowe) there was a small vegetable patch Read More
It was off to the Sandham Memorial Chapel this weekend as the folks were visiting – if you are in the area, you must go! Anyway at the back of the chapel was a small vegetable garden and at the rear, the gardeners had “re-purposed” some old wooden ladders. It was such a lovely idea, Read More