dahlias

This year I decided to lift and store my dahlias in crates, and I used Westland’s Gro-Sure vermiculite as my storage medium, which was very nice and easy to work …

Taking a look back at 2021, we spent a lot of it outdoors and in the garden. I always find it motivating to see all the seasons, one after the …

My first year of growing dahlias has largely been a big success and I have fallen in love with dahlias. They offer so many different colours, sizes and shapes, so …

I’ve had great fun growing dahlias for the first time, and I can’t get over just how much they flower. We planted over 30 different varieties which were nurtured from …

The dahlias have finally exploded and they are flowering like crazy offering a wonderful array of colour to the garden and the vases inside the house. We have over 30 …

Regular followers will know that we use Ecoworm’s assortment of organic vermicompost liquid fertilisers across our smallholding giving our vegetables, flowers, trees and shrubs the nutrition they need. We’ve filmed …

Last year, a number of our plants and flowers were badly affected by slugs. This year with many new plants we’re not taking any chances, and we’re using Nemaslug to …

We’ve been growing our dahlias from tubers since March, and this week we finally got to plant them in our new cut flower raised bed. All of the tubers were …

One of our main summer projects this year is to build raised beds for cut flowers. We are building them in the front garden, and this year Kirsten has decided …