How To Enjoy Your Garden in May
Reading time 37 minutes
How to get the most out of your garden in the merry month of May.
Fruit and Veg
How to Enjoy Your Garden in March
Reading time 33 minutes
Although winter’s icy fingers cling to March, their grip weakens daily. The weather may not always be clement, but there’s no turning back now; […]
How to Enjoy Your Garden in February
Reading time 31 minutes
Excitement is mounting at The Watch House. At the end of this month, The Frustrated Gardener will be getting a complete makeover, including a […]
How To Use Horse Manure In Your Garden
Reading time 9 minutes
No good gardener ever turns down the offer of a load of well-composted horse manure. Some may even go weak at the knees at […]
National Allotments Week 2021
Reading time 10 minutes
I am surprised and embarrassed to note that the last time I wrote on TFG’s blog was back in January. Where have the last […]
A Stroll Around The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Reading time 14 minutes
Work brought me to Edinburgh this week. I could not pay a visit to one of my favourite cities in the world without a […]
Here Comes Summer!
Reading time 8 minutes
The title of of this post is tongue-in-cheek given I’m sat at my desk with rain pattering on the skylight and a brisk draught […]
A Year of Plotting
Reading time 21 minutes
January 2020 After waiting only four months, we got the news that we had reached the top of the allotment waiting list: if we […]
BITTERSWEET MEMORIES OF 2020
Reading time 22 minutes
The year 2020. Where to begin? It’s tempting to dive straight into the obvious negatives – and let’s face it that would be rich […]
Glut Instinct
Reading time 14 minutes
“Growing your own produce is great if you want no food, then 400 tomatoes, then nothing, then 120 cucumbers, then nothing, then 3 carrots that […]
And So It Begins…
Reading time 9 minutes
It is official, we won’t go hungry this summer! Harvesting on the allotment has well and truly begun, especially the crop of courgettes, and […]
Garden Diary: May 2020 Part I
Reading time 18 minutes
Where, oh where did May go? No sooner had it started than June was upon us. Now it’s midsummer, the longest day is almost […]