(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




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 - 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