Plums are delicious! They’re easy to grow and the trees look pretty in Spring with blossom on.
Jersey Plants Direct has this great offer on

Patio Cherry & Plum Trees 9cm Pot £19.99
Delightful Summer Fruits Cherry Helena:Produces and abundance of sweet tasting cherries. Plum Black Amber: Dark and sweet tasting fruits.Imagine the delight of picking your own fruit, fresh from your tree on the patio. Our mini trees are simple to grow, require little training or pruning and will produce an abundance of healthy delicious fruit from a single stem.

Heath Road Caterham Allotment Gallery
I do like looking at allotment pictures!

A lovely clip of a video on this blog site of someone’s cats playing nice!
My cats visit me on my allotment. It’s very close to my house so it’s easy for them to come over and cry at me when I’m working. Mine get a bit freaked by the foxes being about though!

From Weeds to Seeds

I love growing broad beans.They’re hardy, don’t need staking, crop well, taste delicious and are almost trouble free. Even if they fall over they should keep growing so not a problem for windy gardens!
Eat the freshly podded beans with bacon!

Free delivery offer available at Jersey Plants Direct

Broadbean Bunyards Exhibition 50 Seeds £2.99
Superb reliable gardeners favouriteA gardeners favourite. It is reliable variety with superb flavour. This variety is a heavy cropper which is suitable for most soils and is ideal for freezing.

Need rock free soil. Siece soil, add sand and make sure it’s deep enough for the variety of carrot you’re growing.
Love growing carrots. Ferny foliage looks nice, so again a plant for the busy border.
Can be grown in pots, again check depth.
Free delivery on all orders at Jersey Plants Direct

Carrot Amsterdam 1000 Seeds £2.99
Small and SweetSmall sweet carrots.

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Beetroot seeds at Jersey Plants Direct. Free delivery.
Easy to grow. Can be grow in with the flowers too. The leaves have a good purple colour to them so are pretty to look at.
Monogern so doesn’t need thinning out.

Beetroot Solo F1 500 Seeds £2.99
Outstanding all around performerAn outstanding all round performer. Unlike most other varieties of Beetroot, this variety only produces one plant per Monogerm so does not need much thinning.

A FANTASTIC OFFER – Pack of 15 Garden Ready Plants for ONLY £1.00 (plus standard postage)! – Offer Valid for only one pack per order, more than one pack will make all charged at full retail price.

An impressive polyanthus that will fill your spring garden with vibrant colour. Shows excellent winter hardiness, is strong-growing, has a floriferous habit and an impressive range of colours. Height 30cm rrp: £6.99 + £4.95 postage
Offer Price £1 + £4.95 postage (save £5.99)

Offer valid until 27th September while stocks last
Suttons Seeds has these great offers

Viola x wittrockiana Frizzle Sizzle (Pansy) – 30 Garden Ready Plants £13.99
The frilled petals and colourful mix of bold, bright colours of this variety are stunning, and make a real change from traditional pansy varieties. Flowers December-May. Height 15-20cm.. Pack of 30 Garden Ready Plants. . . . . Ideal for beds, borders and patio containers. Prefers full sun or partial shade.

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Weed a bed thoroughly and put mulch down and you’ll be helping the plants. Weeds take valuable nutrients and water from your plants, so removing them and cutting down on their regrowth helps your plants. Mulch thick enough to stop weeds and there’s less work to do too!
Mulch also looks neat!
New products today at RoLawn Direct

Rolawn Landscaping Bark (1m³ Bulk Bag – 1,000 litres approx volume when packed) £74.80
Rolawn Landscaping Bark is a quality multi purpose grade bark derived from forestry woodchip. It is a natural product which helps enhance the appearance of a landscaped area.

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How to crystallize/candy edible flowers and petals

Easy!
You need egg white and castor sugar (or granulated and a blender!) and some flowers!
I think it’s a bit late to be finding flowers after the last weeks winter chills!

Well I’m already feeling the cold but have yet to put the heating on! It might happen sooner than I think though if it snows as forecast as early as October
Exacta Weather predicts
“As we head towards winter, I expect to see the first signs of some moderate to heavy snowfalls as early as October or November in certain parts of the UK. In terms of the meteorological winter, I expect December, January, and February to experience below average temperatures, with the heaviest snowfalls occurring within the time frame of November to January across many parts of the UK.”

What will this mean for the garden?
Well instead of sweeping up leaves it’ll be snow!

Get your garden tidy now – if it’s going to be windy again sort any problem trees or plants out now.

Trick or treaters might have to come wearing big coats and no costumes!

Tooled Up just added these new items

Roughneck Round Emergency Mini Shovel 27&quot Long £9.95
The Roughneck Micro shovel is ideal for use in confined spaces such as the bottom of trenches or shovelling bagged materials. Ideal for keeping in the car for snow or off road emergencies.The 14 gauge blade is manufactured from industrial st…

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