If you are not going to Yarmouth to see the Old Gaffers this weekend there are a couple of garden related things on: Wight Salads Open Day The Main Road, Arreton. Tel: 01983 867022 Sunday 1st June 10.30am – 4pm £2 for adults, children and pensioners £1 – proceeds to charity. Guess who is going [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Something for this Weekend 31st May & 1st June
Posted in Environment, Events, Isle of Wight, tagged Alan Titchmarsh, Arreton, Bembridge, Brickfields, Calbourne, Car Boot Sale, Chale, Gardeners' Question Time in Bembridge, Haylands Farm, Isle of Wight, IW Bat Hospital, IW Bonsai Society Annual Show, Lushington, Old Gaffers festival, Risky Business, Ryde, St George's Park Newport, St Helens, Switch, Tyne Hall, Unity Stompers, Wight Salads Open Day, Yarmouth on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Endangered British Butterflies
Posted in Environment, flowers, tagged aubretia, buddleia, Butterfly Conservation, Chalkhill Blue, Common Blue, Endangered British Butterflies, Grayling, Lulworth Skipper, Sedum, Small Skipper, Small Tortoiseshell, Speckled Wood, Wall Brown, wallflower, Wendy's Shanklin page on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This was brought to my attention by Wendy and I have copied the following from her very interesting Shanklin Page in case you have not seen it. The links on the names of the different butterflies take you to more information about it on the Butterfly Conservation website. Butterflies desperately need good weather in the [...]
The South Somerset Green Fair and Scythe Festival
Posted in Environment, Events, Lifestyle, tagged Scythe Festival, South Somerset Green Fair on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Fourth West Country Scythe Festival & Competition and the South Somerset Green Fair Sunday, 15 June 2008 10 am till 11 pm. Thorney Lakes Muchelney, Nr Langport in the Somerset Levels Photo: Pot Noodle
Planting by the Moon 26th May – 1st June
Posted in flowers, Fruit growing, Planting by the Moon, Vegetable growing, tagged all cereals, All flowers, All root veg, artichoke, aubergine, basil, beetroot, broad bean, broccoli & cauliflower, brussels sprout, cabbage, cardoon, carrot, celeriac, celery, chervil, chinese cabbage, courgette, cress, cucumber, curly endive, dandelion, endive, fennel, garlic, gherkin, gourd, Jerusalem artichoke, kohlrabi, lamb's lettuce, leek, lettuce, marrow, melon, onions, parsley, parsnip, pea, peppers, potato, pumpkin, purslane, radish, rocket, runner bean, salsify, shallot, sorrel, spinach, sweetcorn, tomato, turnip on May 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
According to the book I am using ‘In Tune with the Moon’ this is what we are supposed to be doing this week. I will try and be organised and post every Sunday what the book suggests for the following week. My review of this book. If you are planting by the moon for the [...]
Something for this Weekend 24th, 25th & 26th May
Posted in Events, Lifestyle, tagged Aldermoor Earthworks, Bembridge, Big Green Picnic, Brading, Brickfields, Calbourne, Car Boot Sale, Chale, Lushington, National Gardens Scheme, Nunwell House, Spring Plant Sale, St George's Park Newport, St Helens, The Ventnorian, Ventbag, Ventnor, Ventnor Botanic Garden, Yarmouth on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t forget to visit Ventbag and The Ventnorian at the Big Green Picnic Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th May 10am – 7pm in the car park next to County Hall Aldermoor Earthworks will be there with their straw bale barn with solar and wind power info and demonstrations. Lots of other fun green stuff going [...]
Companion Planting
Posted in Companion Planting, flowers, Fruit growing, Growing in containers, organic gardening, Permaculture, Vegetable growing, tagged aphids, asparagus beetle, beans, blackspot, carrot fly, caterpillars, Chives, Companion Planting, Nasturtiums, onions, Poached egg plant, sacrificial plant, Tagetes, tomatoes, woolly aphids, wormwood on May 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is a fascinating subject you would think that you dig your ground, sow you seeds or bung your plants in, water, weed, feed and hey presto lots of lovely fresh veggies to eat – not if you put certain plants near each other. I am just starting to investigate companion planting myself and am [...]
Grow some Blueberries
Posted in Blueberries, Fruit growing, Growing in containers, Soft Fruit, tagged Blackmoor Nurseries, Blueberry Berkley, Blueberry Bluecrop, Blueberry Bluegold, Blueberry Chandler, Blueberry Duke, Blueberry Patriot, Blueberry Spartan, Blueberry Top Hat, growing blueberries, growing blueberries in containers, how to grow blueberries on May 21, 2008 | 26 Comments »
Buying blueberries in the supermarket is very expensive, for the price of a couple of those tiny punnets of fruit you could buy your own blueberry plant. A North American native plant that will grow very well here in the UK. Be careful about which variety you buy especially if you have a small garden [...]
Ventnor Permaculture May Meeting
Posted in Events, organic gardening, Permaculture, sustainability, Vegetable growing, Ventnor, tagged plant swap, Ventnor Permaculture, Ventnor Permaculture meeting on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We met at Tim’s new plot that he has borrowed from Fran, on what turned out to be a beautiful day. We did a bit of digging and clearing for him. He has already made amazing progress in the last couple of weeks and has loads of plants in the two beds and a full [...]
Planting by the Moon 19th – 25th May
Posted in flowers, Fruit growing, Planting by the Moon, Vegetable growing, tagged all cereals, All flowers, All root veg, artichoke, aubergine, basil, beetroot, broad bean, broccoli & cauliflower, brussels sprout, cabbage, cardoon, carrot, celeriac, celery, chervil, chinese cabbage, courgette, cress, cucumber, curly endive, dandelion, endive, fennel, garlic, gherkin, gourd, Jerusalem artichoke, kohlrabi, lamb's lettuce, leek, lettuce, marrow, melon, onions, parsley, parsnip, pea, peppers, potato, pumpkin, purslane, radish, rocket, runner bean, salsify, shallot, sorrel, spinach, sweetcorn, tomato, turnip on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to the book I am using ‘In Tune with the Moon’ this is what we are supposed to be doing this week. I will try and be organised and post every Sunday what the book suggests for the following week. My review of this book. If you are planting by the moon for the [...]
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