Natural gardening adventures
The garden is slowly (very slowly...) coming to life, so let's have a look at what's in flower towards the end of March! Our garden is North-facing and especially the first half is very shaded, so it's a fairly cold microclimate. Plants in our garden flower about two weeks after their counterparts in other gardens…
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It's that time of year where we're all thinking of starting our vegetable garden! And here in the Peppers & Poppies garden, that of course means peppers, but also a bunch of other things. Let's have a look at what I am planning this year. Over the past few years, I have collected a bunch…
When we had the hard landscaping done in our garden, we also had an overgrown hazel tree removed. This wood has been incredibly valuable in our garden, providing decorative elements, edging to paths and borders, and woodchips. I am a big fan of woodchips as a mulch for its excellent weed-suppressing qualities. However, woodchips degrade,…
As per usual, I have big plans for the coming year! Not all of these may reach fruition by the end of the year, but I am certainly going to try! Here is a list of what I currently have planned, in order of 'most likely' to 'stretch goals/least likely': Non-negotiable: These things HAVE to…
2023 was a year of big changes in the garden. Most notably, we had a company come in to do our hard landscaping and plant a few trees. Here's what that looked like: Picture on the left taken in January 2023. Picture on the right taken in early May 2023. As you can see above,…
Happy 2024, everyone! In 2023 this blog was dead, but that is largely because while a lot happened in the garden, not a lot of it was done by me. Professionals came in to put in a path and patio and fencing; then I went abroad for 6 weeks during prime growing season, during which…
2022 was chaos. We got a new dog; the neighbours had constant building works on their house; we had super busy years in our professional lives. This blog fell by the wayside in all that. But it doesn't mean nothing happened in the garden! I managed to dig up a few pictures showing what I…
For the past nearly two years (two years! Time flies!) I've been monitoring my garden and thinking about all the ways in which I could turn this neglected patch of grass into a garden. Unfortunately, it turns out that for me, sometimes, having too much freedom can be paralyzing. Not having any structure in the…
Hello everyone! I live! And so do some of my plants! 2022 was a good but busy year for me and as such, this blog sort of... disappeared. I didn't get as much done in the garden as I wanted to either, so I guess there wasn't much to blog about anyway. Here is a…
Happy New Year, everyone! Here's to a happy, healthy 2022 in which we will all enjoy nature, from the great outdoors to our own little slice of paradise: our garden. Speaking of garden: it's time to plan ahead. And luckily, I got the perfect gift this holiday season to plan my next potager! Last year…
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