It’s been a really strange start to the year, with quite a few major hard hitting setbacks, firstly my car was smashed up in a hit a run car crash then in early in January our whole family was hit with the coronavirus which, almost two months on, we are in many ways still recovering …
It’s not over! It may seem like the gardening season is coming to an end but there’s still lots to do throughout autumn and winter. It’s a good time to plan, to organise and to set the foundations right for next season. With that in mind and as the streets and lawns are covered with …
We’re now well into autumn and the temperatures are starting to drop, the leaves are falling, and the gardening season is really slowing down in terms of plants out in the garden. We do have a few tomatoes, some aubergines and lots of chillies still growing in the greenhouse. There have been a couple of …
September is always a month of mixed feelings for us, it’s full of abundant harvests of squash, potatoes, gourds, raspberries, sweetcorn and there’s still more to come, it’s a culmination of this year’s hard work, but it’s also a month in which the gardening season begins to come to an end and as the day …
Asalamualaykum, so this month we celebrated Eid Ul Adha. It was quite strange this year because of the situation with Covid-19, normally our home and garden are the hub of the family celebrations. My brothers and sisters normally all gather at our home with their children so the house is buzzing with activity, with lots …
Asalamualaykum, I have been gardening for most of my life in one form or another, some of my earliest memories are running around and playing on my father’s allotment in South Yorkshire, but for much of my adult life I was left without access to a garden but now we live in Leeds, West Yorkshire …