Strawberry Wall Tower
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Join in the latest trend in ‘Vertical Gardening’ with this easy-to-plant Wall Tower. Utilising walls and fences for growing anything from strawberries, to herbs and flowers, it’s the perfect solution where growing space is limited.

10 FREE Strawberry Plants with every Wall Tower!

Strawberries are easy to grow and really rewarding. Order today and we’ll send your Wall Tower and plants straight out for you to get planting so you can enjoy your first harvest this summer!
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Everyone loves strawberries, but a strawberry bed can take up a lot of room. This is a neat solution for small gardens. This wall tower is designed to hold 10 strawberry plants which means you get plenty of strawberries. It’s also good for keeping the slugs and other pests away!

Ideal for a small yard or back garden where you just don’t have lots of ground space to give over to fruit.
Hang so it’s in the sun and water regularly especially when it’s fruiting. Using water retaining gel in the compost will help too.

We have some grass areas on our street that get mowed by the council. Today I spoke to the man mowing the grass and asked if it was possible we could have the clippings on the allotment. He was very pleased to offload them with us as he has to travel some distance to empty the mower so it saved him time!
We got a big pile of grass clippings out of it too.
You can use grass clippings as a mulch on potatoes and it’s supposed to stop potato scab from forming. It’s also good as a mulch around onions and other plants. It can be used around shrubs too.

You’re not supposed to add it in really thick layers though else it heats up. Add a couple of inches at a time and it’s fine though apparently.
Free mulch is great and I know several people are going to be using this either as a mulch or on their compost heap.

I’m really pleased I caught the bloke this week as he’d been a fortnight ago but whilst I was out!
Just shows it pays to ask!

Would you like to know why you don’t pile deep grass clippings round plants?


They get hot.
This pile was at 30’C inside after just a few hours on the allotment. They were dropped off about half 10 this morning and it was about 7pm when we were outside taking the temperature.

The next day it’s at 41.5’C! Impressive! it’s changing colour inside going yellowy.

These rhubarbs are grown from seed. I’ve got quite a few of them. The idea is to have a big rhubarb bed on the allotment and ensure everyone I know is growing rhubarb! It’s dear to buy in the shops but I think it’ll be well worth while having plenty about! We’ve got a communal strawberry patch so why not a rhubarb patch?


They were started in a seed tray in the greenhouse and then potted up into bigger pots. I’m not sure whether they’ll be big enough to put out from this site pot or whether they should be potted up again.

A rhubarb flower usually indicates the rhubarb isn’t happy about something. I think mine has a black currant bush too close to it so I will be moving that in the autumn.

The rhubarb flower is good at hiding – but it’s a thick stem that doesn’t develop a full leaf of its own. It make have small leaves coming off it. The plant puts a lot of energy into making seeds so it’s best to cut it out as soon as you see it.
It’s worth checking your rhubarb even if you don’t want any to pick every week or so just to make sure it’s not being naughty!

This is the flower in the kitchen. I took it in to undo the leaf around the flower so you could see it better. It’s probably quite pretty if you let it flower properly but I would be worried about how much energy it would take from the plant. I have thrown it on my compost heap.
I also picked enough rhubarb for a pudding after tea tonight!

Pinch them out or not?

There are lots of reasons not to let them grow –
they crowd the plant cutting air flow,
make it too heavy,
increase the watering demand on the plant,
make it harder to get other side shoots out
make it harder to keep an eye on the plant
makes it more likely the plant will get damaged under its own weight.

So pinch them out – or use a sharp knife if you don’t seem to be able to manage it. It’s easier when they’re very small to just remove them with a thumbnail but if you miss some they get bigger and it’s neater for the plant to get less damage if you use a sharp blade.

Don’t throw them away though! Stick them in a pot of compost, or bottle of water and see if they grow!

Free tomato plants!
Last year was the first year I tried this and I got some tomatoes off one of the side shoots I planted!
I will be doing this again – and giving them to friends so they can have a grow at growing tomatoes too!

Much too early for mine – I’ve only just planted my seeds! I feel like I’m starting a bit late but I reckon they’ll catch up soon enough!