Watering the Garden Made Easy
Watering the garden can be a real chore during summer or it can be an opportunity to study your garden. Enjoying looking at plants you might otherwise miss. …
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April Gardening Advice from 1906
April gardening advice from the 1906 edition of the magazine “One & All” is shown below. You may not easily be able to lay your hands …
March 1906 – Gardening Advice
Read on to see what seasonal advice was being given to allotment holders and working gardeners back in March 1906. Much of it still holds good
1906 Cottage Garden Advice
Back in 1906 the magazine One & All Gardening described itself as “A popular annual for amateurs, allotment holders and working gardeners” and included …
Tomato Plant Destroyers
My tomato plants are no more. After a long and arduous journey they have gone to tomato plant heaven (i.e. the compost). They were doing ok up to …
Tomato Boils and Bubbles
Was happily fiddling with my tomatoes the other day when I pulled back in horror. On the bottom side of the lowest branch (or stem or whatever it’s …
Slugs slugs slugs
Back when I embarked on this little gardening journey of mine – I had the best intentions. I would not use any chemical pest control. I would be …