Seasonal tips, growing guides, and honest lessons from seven years of trial and error.
March always seems to be the point when the garden suddenly starts asking a lot from you all at once. There’s still winter tidying to finish,…
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Late January in my garden is a mixture of leggy seedlings, summer daydreaming and reminding myself that even the scruffiest jobs are still moving the season on.
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Garden Projects
Mid-January in my garden is all about small jobs that make spring feel a little closer: seed sowing, more ranunculus, bargain bulbs and plans for the new border.
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I know January is technically the start of the year, but in gardening terms September often feels more significant.
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October is properly under way now, which means bulbs, sweet peas, ranunculus and the yearly feeling that every surface is about to fill up with trays and pots.
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This has felt like a very 2024 sort of fortnight: heavy rain, soggy borders and a lot of bulb thoughts.
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September always flips a switch in my head. As much as the dahlias are still dazzling away, I am already thinking ahead to next year and reaching for seed trays again.
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