How To Garden Archives - Growing With Plants

HOW TO GROW ARTICHOKES FROM SEED AND HARVEST IN ONE YEAR

January 20, 2013

Artichoke seed must be sown early, and mid to late January sowings result in plants large enough to endure the neccessary cold ‘vernalization’ temperatures…

Planting Peas

March 22, 2010

Any gardening blog worth its words this week will either be posting about four leafed clovers, or planting peas, for in many areas, particularly…

Mastering Regal Geraniums

January 25, 2010

A shot of some Pelargoniums from the front sand bed in the greenhouse from last May. These we’re still young, but now the plants…

How to make a Euryops pectinatus Standard

January 22, 2010

Last Saturdays fine weather kept me in the greenhouse for most of the day, and it wasn’t difficult to find chores to be done,…

Holiday topiary get a trim for the new year

December 29, 2009

The art of training shrubs and trees into standard topiary shapes, comes and goes with the fashion of the moment, just as bonsai become…

A Trough Building Workshop

October 1, 2009

The next three posts will show what we did last weekend. IT started with a Trough building workshop hosted by the Berkshire Chapter of…

Espalier Apples

April 28, 2009

This weekend I planted four espaliered apples along the back of the kitchen garden, infront of the greenhouse main bluestone walk lined with boxwood….