Pippa has been gardening since she was four, when she would trail behind her mother as she tended her garden - she was soon given her own small plot of land. Her particular speciality is garden pests [...]
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Courgette rot
at 1:02 pm on Thursday 3 September 2009 14 Comments
…the recent soggy, damp weather [...] has meant that all the later flowers on the courgettes and marrows have quickly rotted.
Read moreFloral dispays in France
at 9:33 am on Friday 28 August 2009 11 Comments
The weather was fantastic. But it was the gardens and floral displays that put a smile on my family’s faces.
Read moreAnts in the garden
at 4:38 pm on Thursday 20 August 2009 7 Comments
I’ve employed a home-grown method to reducing the number of ants in my garden. As soon as I find an ants nest, I scoop up one of my hungry hens and position her in front of it.
Read moreGrowing tomatoes and tomato blight
at 2:35 pm on Wednesday 12 August 2009 46 Comments
I grow most of my tomatoes in the greenhouse, as growing them outside increases the risk of them getting tomato blight.
Read morePollen beetles and sweet peas
at 12:49 pm on Friday 7 August 2009 5 Comments
Although pollen beetles are no great pest, they can nibble the edges of unopened flowers. I’ve seen a few of them about, but for the first time, I’ve not had to shake bunches of sweet peas to remove whole families…
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