29 March 2009 | Posted in Gardening by The Marshalls Family

Thank goodness the garden is officially weed-free (at the moment)! We finally finished weeding the raised beds and I couldn’t believe how many weeds had grown among the brassicas in just a couple of weeks

03 March 2009 | Posted in Gardening by The Marshalls Family

Yes – it’s time to get planting onion sets and shallot sets in milder areas, providing the soil is sandy or loam based.

03 March 2009 | Posted in Gardening by The Marshalls Family

Having finished all the weeding and taken note of where all the perennials and bulbs were coming through we began mulching the beds with chipped bark

03 March 2009 | Posted in Gardening by The Marshalls Family

I was looking out of the window this morning when I saw something odd in the shallow, ‘beach’ end of the pond. On further investigation I found a big blob of frogspawn!

03 March 2009 | Posted in General by The Marshalls Family

Today's vegetables might be larger, but if you think that means they contain more nutrients, you'd be wrong. The solution: Grow Your Own Vegetables!

03 March 2009 | Posted in Gardening by The Marshalls Family

Managed to get outside for the second day on the trot! I covered part of one bed with a cloche to warm it up a bit ready to sow some carrots and salad leaves in a week or two.

03 March 2009 | Posted in Gardening by The Marshalls Family

The fact is that one in three Britons now grow their own vegetables, and that figure seems to set to continue rising at a round 5% per annum. The growth in interest, make no mistake, is not a result of the credit-crunch. The Grow Your Own Revolution has been gathering momentum for some five years.