The Food Club

Share Your Garden Success

Posted on 22. May, 2009 by Justin.

I’m interested in hearing from some fellow gardeners about what they are doing in their garden. In particular if you could send some photos I would love to write a post to inspire others.
What can you send?

Gardeners growing in containers
Window Sill Gardening
Big Projects
Small Project
Established Gardens

I hope to get the photos published in a post in [...]

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Establishing a Fruit Garden

Posted on 10. Feb, 2009 by Justin.

As you can see from the photos in the My Garden page you will see I don’t have the biggest garden. I wanted to establish a fruit garden but was unsure what I could do with the limited space.
What I decided to do was convert the back border of the garden into a mini fruit [...]

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Forcing Rhubarb

Posted on 04. Feb, 2009 by Justin.

This weekend I decided it was the time to start forcing my rhubarb. The gardening books say you can start in January but as I live in the North decided to wait until the first week in February. 
 
Step 1 - I covered the rhubarb crown with well rotted manure to help give it the best [...]

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Current State of Play

Posted on 01. Feb, 2009 by Justin.

This is what my garden is looking like at the moment on the 1st of Feb 2009. More photos in the My Garden Page! 
 

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My Garden

Posted on 01. Feb, 2009 by Justin.

September 2006
I was looking at my extremely overgrown garden at the end of the summer 2006 wondering what could be done. I decided that it was time to take some serious action and get out there. With a little help from my girlfriend and her parents the following month we attacked the undergrowth. After a [...]

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What Varieties Should I Buy?

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Justin.

Choosing varieties of fruit and vegetables can be difficult but follow a few simple rules and you can’t go too wrong. Just because you can buy the seed in the garden centre it doesn’t mean it will be suitable for your garden. Each fruit and vegetable can be graded into a difficulty level so it’s [...]

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