Tag Archives: Higgledy Garden
Early Sowings
The sowing of seeds has started and some have startled me by germinating almost immediately – Cosmos Dazzler and Purity were already showing after two days and now the challenge is to find enough light to stop them getting too … Continue reading
Posted in March, Sweetpeas, Uncategorized
Tagged aubergine, broad beans, chillies, Cosmos, Gardeners Delight, Higgledy Garden, Kings Seeds, Roger Parsons, Sarah Raven, Seedaholic, Stupicke, Sungold, Tomatillo, tomato seeds
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Plotting Improvements
Last week managed to wrestle some of the nettles and docks out of the plot and onto the bonfire heap along with the mostly dried out sweetpeas, some still waving last weak flowers at the top of their supports. Weeded … Continue reading
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Tagged achillea, Albutt Blue, cornflowers, dahlias, hardy annuals, hesperis, Higgledy Garden, High Scent, King Edward VII, knautia, nettles, rose Graham Thomas, scabious, Sweetpeas
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Planting on the Plot
A chill returned this weekend but my perennials growing in pots had been hardening off out of the cold greenhouse and on the plot itself. The knautia looked very cheerfully stocky and the strong white roots were creeping gently out … Continue reading
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Tagged achillea, cornflowers, Higgledy Garden, knautia, sweet rocket
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Flower Farming Workshop with Georgie Newbery
Even getting miserably lost in the dark on the way home, didn’t make me feel any less enthusiastic about the excellent course with Geogie Newbery in Somerset. Just after getting my plot, I had come across her book, ‘The Flower … Continue reading
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Tagged achillea, Georgie Newbery, Higgledy Garden, sowing seeds, Sweetpeas
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A Slowly Developing Plot
It looked promising today, despite heavy rain last night, it was a misty morning with a sense of the sun waiting to come through. So I set off to the plot to see what damage the cold and wet had … Continue reading
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