Gardening – March 2017 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
This month, as we write Storm Doris is upon us. It was hardly a storm here in Cornwall; more like a Winnie the Pooh blustery day. The rest of the country has...
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Gardening – February 2017 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
What a mild and dry winter we have had so far, bar a few days last week., and even that wasn’t bone-chillingly cold. The frost did put pay to a couple of...
Gardening – January 2017 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
Whoever said there was nothing to do in the garden over winter? There is plenty, and apart from the odd chilly morning, the weather has been clement enough recently that we’ve been...
Gardening – December 2016 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
What a difference a few days make. Until recently, we had been enjoying a balmy and dry period lasting for several weeks, and most of the leaves were still firmly affixed to...
Gardening – November 2016 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
Well, this is the anniversary of our taking over this column and there is no doubt that much has changed for us this year, both personally and professionally. Familiar faces have come...
Gardening – October 2016 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
The autumn equinox has just passed and it is official, nights will be longer than days from now on. But don’t let that be a cause for gloom; the soil is still...
Gardening – September 2016 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
So where did that summer go exactly? If you distil it down, we probably had about 2 to 2.5 weeks of really summery weather, and the rest has been quite mediocre. In...
Gardening – August 2016 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
Well-deserved holidays are rightly in the forefront of all your minds at present, so we will keep it short this month, rather than burdening your consciences with gardening jobs. In truth, there...
Gardening – July 2016 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
Cornish summertime is truly here. You can tell by the warm days, the slightly damp, mouldering whiff we all have about us at the moment, and the fact that Sarah’s long legs...
Gardening – June 2016 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
What a difference a few weeks make in the garden. Those colder night-time temperatures are a thing of the past (fingers crossed) and we are all playing catch up with our gardening....