How are you keeping yourself busy this month? Have you been spending time thinking about your garden? Reading gardening magazines and books? If you’re like me you probably have a number of seed and plant related catalogues to read. I think mine started being delivered in the mail from late November onward. It’s too cold [...]
Here’s a a few handy gardening tips that you might find useful, particularly if you are new to gardening: 1. Do your homework. Visit public gardens, read magazines and books. 2. Amend the soil for success. Lighten clay loam soil with compost. 3. Design for surprise: place some curves in your design or interesting nooks [...]
If you live in the city and only have a small space to plan, plant and enjoy your garden in, like myself, you might be interested in picking up a copy of Melinda Myers book Small Space Gardening as it is a great resource for space challenged gardeners. Myers book is aimed at gardeners whose [...]
