(VGG) Very Good Gardening Blog
Zoe’s Wellington based blog which covers one new skill a week, relevant to what the weather is doing this week; what to do in your garden, and what plants are exciting to us at this time of year.
That beautiful, overflowing cottage garden
And some thoughts on how to make it work better next year
Some quick tips to make your garden substantially more impressive
Have guests over? Have you talked up your gardening prowess? These reframes will help you to make even the biggest of failures something to celebrate
One year's seeding makes for 7 year's weeding
Saving seeds (for all of the various reasons)
Outcomes from some experiments this season
Spray trials, planting trials, and lots of trimming practice
Convolvulus
I don’t know if it’s the weather, or the time of year, or just the way the jobs have fallen- but we have spent a lot of time this week removing convolvulus.
On hydrangeas
I appreciate that this is a bit of a targeted post! Some of us hate the things. But this post is targeted at you, person who has hydrangeas, but cannot seem to get the timing right for pruning.
Garlic- super extremely complex week here
Week 2: the week where we just poke them into the soil, and gaze lovingly.
Grow broad beans with me!
Have you ever wanted a step by step for growing plants in Wellington? Here it is! And we're starting with an easy one- let's grow some broad beans.
Garlic - sourcing and prepping
Week 1 sees us finding, dividing and resting the garlic. Not a huge amount to do, let's start with baby steps