Most people are of the opinion that the arrival of fall means the end of the growing season. Well, before you pack away your garden tools, allow us to tell you that summer is not only the high-season in the …
We’ve had 3 or 4 good hard frosts already this Autumn. Jack Frost has definitely started his rounds . Which means it is time to harvest the Yams! I have to be honest and say that when I see those …
Things have got a little out of hand in the Mint department. Our Mint patch is looking rather unruly right now which means it’s time for the bi-annual herb refurb. Every Autumn and early Summer our Mint patch gets a good haircut …
As you are eating your Summer harvest of Garlic, don’t forget to put aside a few cloves from each bulb, for planting in Winter.
Garlic bulbs are grown from individual cloves like the ones in the picture above. With the right growing conditions, each clove planted goes on to produce a single Garlic plant with a bulb containing as many as 20 cloves.
Which makes growing Garlic wonderfully self-sustaining.
Among the many berry plants we have on our 1/4 acre, we have four Navaho Blackberry plants which are an erect, thornless varierty that produce large crops of delicious, fat, sweet black fruit.
Well normally.
This Summer, we didn’t get such a great crop from two of our Blackberry plants.
The fruit was dry and sparse and the plants weren’t looking that healthy.
The other two plants did really well and produced a fantastic crop. But as always in our garden, we want more!
It’s Pea planting time.
Autumn is the perfect time to plant Snow Peas and Climbing Peas, with the cooler weather. Lower temperatures deter mildew, the doom of many a Pea plant.
There are plenty of structures you can easily grow Peas up but I particularly love the look of the pea teepee in our raised gardens.
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