Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Once your cucurbits (pumpkins/squash/courgettes) get growing, they can sprawl all over the place. When it comes to watering them though, you only need to water near the root of the plant. Watering along the sprawled stems and fruit won’t actually …
My kitchen garden and forest garden border now. The raised beds currently have garlic, broad beans and corn salad. Now it’s warming up, I can start more seed sowing and really get the season going. When I published my …
Having visited Hodsock Priory on the weekend (mid February), where they not only have a woodland carpeted with snowdrops, but also an ornamental garden, it reminded me of just how many plants are flowering in late winter. So I thought …
At the moment I have two blogs. This is my 10+ year gardening blog but I’ve also set up a permaculture/solarpunk blog on the new blogging site, Plume. Hopefully once Plume develops more features I’ll be able to move off …
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Bosco Verticale, Milan. Credit Ale Desiderio. This has been cross-posted from my Plume Solarpunk blog. If you are new to solarpunk as I am, it might help to have some descriptions of what solarpunk means. So here are a few …
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