Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Gwenfar Brambles – ugh! Like many gardeners, I am regularly at war with brambles. I cannot control the council land that my garden backs onto. Although the council have promised, a couple of times, to remove the brambles, this has yet …
I attended an excellent talk on Agroforestry by Professor Steve Newman of the Agroforestry Research Trust (and BioDiversity Int.) last night, put on by Oxford Permaculture. Whilst I might live in an urban environment and won’t be setting up a forest …
I saw this when on holiday in Germany, as we were cycling into Dernau, in the Ahr valley (near Rhine) with friends. Gives container gardening legs, don’t you think?!
Ok, I realise it has been yonks since I’ve last blogged. I promise I’ll catch up soon and will supply you with pics and stories from our holiday in the Bavarian Forest and visiting friends in Bonn. In the meantime, …
Since undertaking the Permaculture Design Course last year, my confidence in trying to make my own objects for the garden has increased. I’ve also got better at noticing how I can increase the use of the different resources that I …
I must say thank you to the weather, for hearing my plea and making the weekend predominantly sunny, or at least, not very rainy, as it did rain for 1 hour on Sat. My lottie was ever so pleased to …
Dear weather, I don’t want to sound ungrateful. Because I’m not. I’m really pleased that I don’t have to lug heavy watering cans around the lottie for an hour tonight. My maincrop and late potatoes are no doubt swelling with …
On the weekend we started digging up the 1st and 2nd earlies. Yes, we could have started digging them up earlier, however they were planted quite late (mid-May), so I held off starting to dig them up to soon. Or …
I have just launched my little business, Oxford Sow & Grow, which offers gardening advice and support for beginners. I’ve found from chatting to visitors at Barracks Lane Community Garden and when running the recent women’s gardening workshops, that there …
After yesterdays garlic harvest, today I collected kale, peas and some beetroot, plus the last of the broad beans. Thanks to Kevin’s trusty bike trolley, it’s no problem getting the food home from the lottie. Home! And here is today’s …