Gardening with Ken
When I first started gardening at home my greatest interest was specie crocus, and back in those days they were expensive and difficult to buy. Today we have a wider range and if you planted plenty in autumn then crocus in creams, yellows, purple, blue and oranges, with snowdrops in pure white will be popping through now…
Gardening with Ken - July
It’s mid-summer and it’s time to prepare the garden for holidays and relaxing family times. Your annuals have been in at least a month now and so it is time to remove the dead and dying heads of flowering bedding plants if you haven`t already. This stops the plant setting seed which in turn stops…
Ken's Diary June 2011
Your lawn must have suffered this summer with all that dry weather particularly if you live in the southeast, so watering is probably vital to a decent lawn now when dry periods of several days are in the offing. The trick with lawn watering is that whenever you do the job you give the area…
Ken's Diary March 2011
This is the most exciting time in gardening, when there are plenty of seeds that need to be sown – all you need is the room to grow them. Hardy annual flower seeds including larkspur, love-in-a-mist, godetia, calendula, pansy, poppy and alyssum can be sown directly in the soil where they are to flower, once…
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