I’m a strong believer in organic gardening (as you might have guessed) and one technique I love to use is Companion Planting. Basically, planting groups of plants together that help each other in some way. Often it’s to confuse insects with a vast variety of smells or textures.
Some plants benefit others by attracting pollinators or [...]
Filed under: companion planting on February 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here I go ranting about herbs again! Parsley has to be one of my all time favourites. And it’s a herb that most people like and it looks good on your plate or in a sandwich or on your scrambled eggs. Do you grow it in your organic garden?
It’s quite an easy plant to grow. [...]
Filed under: Herbs on February 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
yes, I love herbs. I must admit, I’m hooked. Just imagine how dull life might be without them!
One lesser known herb that I’m really getting into now (and wanted to share) is Lebanese Cress. There’s some debate over the botanical name, but take a look at my website plant profile to see what it looks [...]
Filed under: Herbs on February 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Kale is a member of the brassica family – along with cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, rocket and others. It’s a vegetable I’ve overlooked til this year. Not sure why. But don’t you just find that there’s always another vegetable or herb that you’ve never grown before? Somehow you just weren’t aware of it?
I must say, I’m [...]
Filed under: vegetables on February 15th, 2009 | No Comments »
Last year in February I transplanted three tiny raspberry divisions (take a look at the original post) along a fence in quite sandy soil. I just wanted to update the original post to show how much they’ve grown in just one year.
It has really surpassed all my expectations for it – other than we didn’t [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on February 13th, 2009 | No Comments »