Category Archives: gardening

Well as far as I am concerned the answer is 7 as that is how many I have just planted. This includes Bramley Apple, James Grieves Apple, Merryweather Damsons, Czar Plums and William Bon Chretien Pear. I have them spaced out 8m apart, staked and have started organising wire meshing around them to stop theContinue reading “How many fruit trees does an orchard make?”

We have been making the most of the nice spring weather to put a new plastic cover or the large poly tunnel. We spent the weekend fitting new base rails and have now started fitting the plastic. Sides and one end done so far, so just one end left to go. Hooray. It was aContinue reading “Putting a new cover on the large poly tunnel”

The first set of Dahlia seedlings were transplanted today. I germinated them in my heated propagater, and then moved them onto the heated bench in the large poly tunnel. It is supposed to get cold tonight so I have popped an extra layer of plastic over the top of them to tuck them up forContinue reading “Transplanting the Dahlia seedlings.”

With my propagators working well, the tomatoes, chillis and peppers were ready to get moved onto the heated bench in the large poly tunnel. The freed up some space so naturally I had to sow some more seeds. These things just have to be done. I am in the planning stage for building a beeContinue reading “Sowing more flower seeds”

I have hit the growing season like a tornado. I think a very long, cold, snowy winter here in Caithness during a lockdown has given me itchy feet to see some new life emerging. So I dragged out my heated propagators, fired up my grow lamp and broke out the seed packets. So over theContinue reading “What I have sown so far.”