Green beans, whether the bush or pole varieties, mature quickly. (You’ll find information about how to grow them here) I messed up a bit this year and let quite a few of my beans get too big….
Home grown green beans are one of my favorite crops. This is an easy and fairly generous plant to grow, and once they start to produce, they produce quite a lot of beans. I find my main…
I describe myself as an “aspirationally organic” gardener. I don’t like to use synthetic pesticides. But I do let them sneak in from time to time. I almost never use commercial weed killer – I have three…
Starting a new vegetable patch from scratch can be daunting, but I found some interesting ways of making the whole process easier and I’m going to share those with you today. I think you’ll find it helpful…
I was a little late planting my maincrop potatoes this year as I’ve been busy setting up my new vegetable patch. Bearing that in mind I’ll share with you exactly what I did with my new potato…
Today I decided to move some of the herbs that have been growing on my kitchen windowsill over the winter, into a container outdoors. I love the convenience of herbs on my windowsill, but let’s be honest,…
Lemon balm doesn’t get as much good press as it deserves. When someone first suggested I add lemon balm to my herb garden, I was sceptical. It just sounded a bit old fashioned. After all, I have…
Garlic chives are a tasty green leaved perennial herb, native to China, that can now be found growing wild across much of Asia, Europe, and North America. Garlic chive plants are sometimes available from garden centers in…
Tolerance and toughness are great attributes in herbs for beginner gardeners. And in my view, thyme is one of the toughest and most tolerant herbs around. My thyme plants are very low maintenance, and some of them I’ve…
Meet the chive plant. A hollow leaved, grass-like, herb, that tastes like onions, is related to garlic, and makes every thing you cook feel a just little bit more fancy. Chives are part of the allium family,…
