Sometimes itās thought that learning to garden is just picking up a series of techniques. However, whether youāre tending a single houseplant or caring for a massive back yard, one of the best ways you can improve your success as a gardener is to sharpen your sense of observation. Phyllis Helland has a simple process […]
Some may want to move from a purely ornamental greenhouse to also producing items for the table but worried this may result in the greenhouse not being āquite as prettyā. Well Citrus may be your answer. No other choice is so good looking the whole of the year, so neat, so reliable, and gives a […]
Fill your watering cans with water and allow them to stand in the greenhouse for at least 24 hours to warm before watering your plants. You may need to water two or three times while the weather is hot, especially if you are behind on your potting on and large plants are in small pots. […]
Itās always something, for a gardener. One year itās drought, the next year itās hail, another year itās a new tomato blight. This year itās a worldwide pandemic. But still, we garden. So we adapt. This year, some of us had trouble ordering the seeds we wanted. Sudden interest in gardening among involuntary stay-at-homes resulted […]
Social distancing quandaries, money worries and stock shortages are making garden centre trips fraught with anxiety ā but home-mixed solutions will eke out your compost supplies. Seedlings need potting. Young plants are dropping through the letterbox, ready to pot up. Your greenhouse tomatoes, peppers and other veg are ready for their summer containers. Youāve got […]
After the shock of the mid May frost put all of my gardening plans temporarily on hold, the warming weather has meant that the greenhouse is now fully planted up and romping away. The task now is to give some of the plants a little attention and pinching out to direct their energies the right […]
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This Spring of self-isolation has been, for many people, myself included, unnervingly productive. So many missions accomplished: like sorting through old photo albums and hundreds of 35mm slides and waking memories of my first encounter with Hartley Botanic and their sturdy greenhouses. I recall how charmed I was by their display at the Chelsea Flower […]
HARTLEY BOTANIC WILL COME TO YOUR GARDEN WITH ITS āVIRTUAL GREENHOUSE CONSULTATIONS’ With Glasshouses and Greenhouses providing a beautiful, undercover al fresco space, and the capacity to grow a huge variety of vegetables and fruit, it is not surprising many of us are dreaming of a Greenhouse during lockdown. Historic Glasshouse and Greenhouse manufacturer Hartley […]
The wonderful thing about having a Hartley greenhouse is it allows you to go forth and propagate! Propagation appeals to me on so many levels. The Yorkshire part of my heritage admires the fact that I can raise plants for virtually nothing. The Christian enjoys the fact that this quote about āgoing forth and propagatingā […]
People who grow things are hopeful. This month, Iām talking with Teresa Speight, who describes herself as a āgarden visionary.ā Teresa consults, teaches, gives garden talks, and delightful podcasts, but her greatest interest goes beyond growing plants. She wants to, as she puts it, āmindfully grow our community.ā Teresaās community is a black middle/working class […]
If youāve got a handful of precious tomato plants for this season, this is how to make them go further Itās pretty easy to grow tomatoes from seed, but unless you sowed them in January or February or even March before lockdown, then really itās a bit late for this year. However you might have […]
