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Gardening – August 2018 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

This extended dry spell has got us all thinking about watering: how much, when, how to prevent evaporation, and all the usual subjects. We will touch on that, and other considerations in...

Gardening – July 2018 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hooray! That’s a whole 3 weeks now, and more in prospect, even if only for the short term. The persistent dry spell...

Gardening – June 2018 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

As the old song goes, June is bustin’ out all over, and that’s not just a comment on some people’s wardrobe choices! Looking back at last month’s column, we were marvelling at...

Gardening – May 2018 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

In a nervous, not-quite-believing way, we are all feeling that Spring is here, and maybe even early summer, all at once. Since we last met, we’ve had some ludicrously high temperatures for...

Gardening – April 2018 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

We’ve had a rotten start to the year so far, in many ways, but surely April will give we gardeners a taste of warmer weather and hope for a better season? Normally,...

Gardening – February 2018 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

We’re not going to mention the weather. What is there to say that we haven’t said already this winter, after all? Suffice to say, we are fed up with it, as no...

Gardening – January 2018 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

What a flippin’ miserable start to the New Year, weather-wise and therefore gardening-wise. In our annual break from Pengelly (we shut the doors on Christmas Eve and stay shut for a couple...

Gardening – December 2017 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

As we head into winter proper, the amount of true gardening we can do lessens, but there are always other jobs to occupy us. Our tools have been well used over the...

Gardening – November 2017 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

With the clocks going back only a couple of nights ago, we are plunged once more into the realm of short days. Those first few times it is dark by 5.30 are...

Gardening – October 2017 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins

Despite the little burst of warmth we have all experienced this last week, we are most definitely into autumn now, however you want to define it. The mornings are wonderfully dewy, the...