Love My Garden

Gardening blog featuring a medium sized traditional English garden with mature trees, shrubs, lawn, herbaceous borders, vegetable patch, greenhouse and containers. All photos have been taken in my garden.

Monday, 24 October 2011

Plant Garlic - It's so Easy to Grow

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I love using garlic in cooking and it is really easy to grow your own. Heads of garlic for planting can be obtained from garden centres and ...

Saturday, 15 October 2011

Revamped Front Garden

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Just finished smartening up the front garden and I'm very pleased with the result. This area was difficult to keep weed free and never r...

Thursday, 29 September 2011

Forcing Bulbs for Indoor Display

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Now is the time of year to think about buying prepared bulbs for early flowering indoors. Specially treated bulbs are available in garden ce...

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Growing and Propagating Strawberries

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I have grown strawberries in the vegetable patch in previous years but have always had a problem with slugs, so this year I decided to grow ...

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Bumper Harvest

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It has been a great year for my veg. I have frozen bags and bags of runner beans and carrots, pickled jars and jars of beetroot, stored a la...

Saturday, 27 August 2011

Roses - a brief history

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Roses have been around for thousands of years - they were painted on palace walls in Ancient Crete in 1600 BC and a thousand years later wer...

Sunday, 21 August 2011

Lovely Home Grown Veg

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The runner bean crop has been really good this year and I am busily picking beautiful long bean pods every day. Those that I cannot eat imme...

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Jeanne: I first became interested in gardening when I was 10 years old. Part of our rear garden was designated as a vegetable patch and I earned my pocket money by helping dad to dig it over and plant our vegetables. Dad gave me a small area to grow my own veg and I planted herbs and strawberries. These are still favourites for me to grow in my own garden today. I love gardening. It's such fun to create different looks and experiment with different plants. My garden is not a manicured show garden but I love it and everything in it. There is a good variety of plants which I'm always looking to expand. I cannot visit a garden centre without buying something. The problem is I don't always think about where I can fit it in until after I've bought it. The garden is always evolving and changing and will never be finished - that's the beauty of gardening. My favourite time is when I've mowed the lawn and finished weeding and tidying and I can sit down with a nice glass of wine or a long cold beer and just relax and enjoy the fruits of my labour.

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