The gardener
Growing the no dig, permaculture way for a couple of decades now on my allotment, in a wildlife garden and in my garden at home.
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Growing vegetables for beginners: May 2026 week 4
This week I have put together the first photo we took of the plot this year at the end of March and the last photo in May. What a difference two months and a lot of seed sowing can make.
The problems with harvesting
For the five or s...
Growing vegetables for beginners: May 2026 week 3
The bees are in their dens of pleasure and all is right with this small corner of the world, even if the roses are early this year.
Watering in hot dry weather
I could talk about watering for ever - like a constantly dripping tap - b...
Vegetable growing for beginners: May 2026 week 2
In true old-style eurovision song contest1, we whipped the skirts off our peas at long last. It is due to warm up this week and some of the peas have flowers so this is what our plot and tunnel looked like at the end of the session.
S...
Vegetable growing for beginners: Week 2 May 2026
The plot after this week’s session. We may be in the ‘hungry gap’ if we didn’t get our planting numbers and sowing dates sorted, but we are also in the dance of the fleece.
We still have our peas swaddled, but the netting will come off nex...
Growing vegetables for beginners: week 1 May 2026
The plot at the end of this week’s session.
There are actually things growing!
I spent week in Crete last week with five days of wonderful weather and two not so much. On the way home I scrawled through my photos and realised I had more p...
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