Tempus Fig-it, or, my poor confused Brown Turkey fig tree

January 30, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

I brought my very normal Brown Turkey fig tree (because of the usual space problems, I have to grow my fig tree in a pot) in from the garden about three weeks ago thinking that it probably wouldn’t survive a frost. So it’s been happily sitting in the sunlight coming through the French windows for […]

Planting garlic on the shortest day of the year

January 6, 2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

Dahlia checking the garlic bulbs pre-planting Garlic takes a good long time to mature and so traditionally it would be planted on the shortest day to give it enough time to grow big and strong in time for harvest on the longest day of the year. And so it was that on the 21st of […]