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Can you harness the power of colour in the garden?

Most gardeners love to inject their garden with a huge dose of colour, Whether that’s flamboyant bedding schemes, flowers for cutting or the spring spectacular of flowering bulbs. Colour is the lifeblood of most gardens. But it doesn’t have to be dramatic and lairy, it can be soft and calming too. Learning how to use […]

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Okahijiki, a Japanese treat

A superbly nutritious greenhouse plant Okahijiki, Salsola komarovii, is one of the oldest Japanese vegetables. Native to saline maritime regions this translates as ‘seaweed on land’ and is distantly related to our Samphire and more closely to our native Prickly Saltwort, Salsola soda, both of which are rich in Elements needed for out nutrition. Salsola […]

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Clean your greenhouse this autumn

Early in the month, especially if it is warm and sunny, sow trays, pots or old growing bags with ‘cut and come again crops’ to harvest through autumn and into winter; think land cress, oriental salads, like pak choi, mizuna and mibuna greens plus lettuce, lamb’s lettuce, chicory and radish and imagine it is spring […]

Automating Your Greenhouse

As fall approaches, it’s time for a thorough cleaning, repainting, and upgrading of my greenhouse. One of the projects on my list this year is automating various systems. Given the large number and variety of plants in my greenhouse, maintaining the optimal environment there can be challenging. Automation can facilitate this process for watering, heating, […]

Seeding the Future by Saving the Past

In a corner of England, long, long ago, a young woman with visions of the epic garden she was planting, sowed seeds of milk thistle, Silybum marianum. HUGE mistake! Little did I know (yes, moi) that the enchanting, fresh young foliage, shimmering with silvered veins in the Norfolk sunshine, would age to old boot leathers […]