Get Your Garden Ready with Aldi

You all know my love of Aldi, and with the warmer weather starting to poke through (I Hope) it’s time to start thinking about sprucing up the garden with Aldi’s range of Gardening Week essentials, available to pre-order online and purchase in store from today (Thursday 3rd May). Create the ultimate outdoor space with quality … Read more

Top Tips for a Low Maintenance Garden

I am very fortunate that Asa loves gardening, don’t get me wrong, I do too, but its always having enough time, I am hoping that when Viggo starts full-time school I will suddenly have more free time to commit to the garden, but we shall see. If you are short on time, then check out … Read more

Becoming More Self-Sufficient: Easy Wins

Becoming completely self-sufficient is a tall order and almost impossible for the majority of people. That said, every little helps and where we are able to take measures to become more self-sufficient, we should, perhaps, at least consider them. So, what easy wins are there when it comes to becoming more self-sufficient? What Does Being … Read more

Vegetable Garden Tips for Beginners

Once you have decided to get into gardening and to grow your vegetables, things can seem a little daunting to say the least. There are a few things that have to be considered; it is not a matter of just putting seeds in the ground and waiting. Vegetable plants do not grow that way. Once … Read more

Growing Vegetable in Winter: Outdoors or Indoors?

Have you ever wondered how you can continue growing vegetable in winter? I once did and it prompted me to do some research on how I could possible do it. I discovered that there are a lot of vegetables that can grow in winter and most of them can be sown or planted outdoors. Vegetables … Read more

Love my new Polytunnel!

This year, with all the children no longer needing mum 24/7 I have been able to get back into one of the things I enjoy, gardening. For my birthday Asa and the children bought me a lovely wooden greenhouse, some people may think its not very romantic, but I love it! This year I have … Read more

Gardening: Winter to Summer in your Garden

I love the garden during the summer, when everything is in bloom and the fruit and vegetables are growing nicely, this year our blackberry bushes have gone crazy and we have an abundance of them, the strawberry patch needs oving as it is getting too big and I will soon have enough for a PYO … Read more

Giving Your Garden a Summer Makeover

The good weather has (finally) arrived, which means that everyone is now looking to get out and enjoy the sunshine. The best place to do this is in your own backyard as you get complete privacy and never have to travel too far for a cold beverage or for a snack. In order to really … Read more