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...
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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...
Gardening – September 2017 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
This is a funny period in the gardening year. Summer is almost over and our gardens are starting to look a little tired, but autumn is not quite here, despite some of...
Gardening – August 2017 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
As we embark on this month’s column, the natural place to start is a look back at last year’s, to make sure we’re giving you something fresh to think about. It was...
Gardening – July 2017 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
Well, what a funny phase we’ve been through recently. Relatively even daytime temperatures, persistently cool nights, thunderous winds (during which one of us was on the Roscoff ferry, getting NO sleep whatsoever,...
Gardening – May 2017 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
Has Anyone Got a Hat We Can Eat? Last month, we talked about pruning and chopping with abandon, hoping the worst of the late winter cold was behind us. The last couple...
Gardening – April 2017 – Sarah Daniel and Helen Robins
It always seems like this time of year brings with it a huge “to do” list in the garden, but in many ways, we have had a bit of a reprieve because...