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 […]

Planting a garden for cats (or cat-friendly planting in the garden)

June 17, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

I always intended to make our garden as edible as possible. So much so, in fact, that everything in it apart from one “Golden Showers” RHS climbing rose is in itself, or produces, something edible. Edible for humans, that is. Our cats love the raspberry canes and like to rub up against them and sleep […]