Can any veg grower resist a peek at someone else’s plot? Not me. I actually grazed the underside of my nose last year, straining to poke it over a fence for an eyeful of a stranger’s asparagus.
If you have an allotment, you have ample opportunity to ogle the competition, but for those of us who don’t and who find that Next Door is a desert of lawn and plastic toys, it can be difficult to work out if it’s you, or if this really is a bad year for leeks.
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BBC Gardener’s World comes in for a lot of stick these days. The problem is that there really isn’t much else on TV. Unlike the internet, where there’s a complete smorgasboard of gardening radio and TV.
Want to visit an Australian garden? Or wondering if gardening would be quite the same if you moved to Oz?
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Far more of us are holidaying in Britain this year, so we’re told.
If you’re off to the seaside it’s a great chance to see how people garden in the extreme conditions. If you’re trying to identify any of the plants you’ve seen then look at Gardening by the Sea for a plant database dedicated to salt-tolerant plants.
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Bumblebees are easy to characterise: all portly geniality, humming quietly, like Pooh.
But there is a sting in the tail (sorry). Three species of bumblebee are already extinct, and nine more under threat. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust was created to combat the “plight of the bumblebee”, and they want our help.
Their site a hive of information (OK, I’ll stop)—offers advice on bumblebee-friendly gardening (including a list of flowers to grow throughout the year), an explanation of the problems and lots of lovely photos.
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Not the pleasantest of subjects, but something for dog owners to contemplate.
I remember the less enjoyable moments of ownership being trailing round the garden with a shovel, looking for our terrier’s little “offerings”. I used to flush them down the loo (luckily we had one just inside the garden door).
But if you’re fed up with burying yours or wrapping them in newspaper for the bin, how about this? The Pet Poo Loo from Original Organics.
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Does the world need another blog? I mean, Really?
Yes. But I would say that, wouldn’t I?
A writer needs a shop window, and this is mine. But rather than add to the cohorts of blogs offering self-indulgent Notes about Nothing (any Seinfeld DVD fans out there?), this will, I hope, be useful to all of you interested in gardens, gardening and related subjects (which is what I tend to write about).
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