Soil and Things Carrying on with the site survey of the new garden – which pretty much applies to the entire palace garden, I’m taking a deep dive to examine all of the extenuating circumstances that impact the garden that need to be acknowledged and really can’t be ignored. Today I’m not in the garden thanks to the weather. It is technically winter so I … Continue reading Soil and Things
I’ve been pleasantly surprised. The sandy soil isn’t actually all that bad. I always thought of it as a soulless substrate that contained very little goodness that needed amending within an inch of its life! I believed those who had sandy soil hand been dealt a bad hand and I thanked my lucky stars I wasn’t one of them. But now I’m one of them … Continue reading The dirty lowdown
I have a lovely friend who upon reading of my dilemma with my garlic, sent me an incredible range of garlic to try. I didn’t even realise we had this many available to us here. I am really excited to grow these, surely at least one of them will thrive in my garden without wearing an orange spotty decoration upon its leaves. Rust is so … Continue reading Checking out my soil
