Category: Grow Your Own Garden
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Tulips(and others) from Amsterdam
From bulbs to flowers these are now coming into their own and look beautiful in the April sunshine . Download QR
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Mason Bees
Mason Bees arrival – April 2021 We have some new arrivals in the form of 40 Mason bee cocoons just waiting to hatch . We have decided to take part in the mason bee guardian program run by www.masonbees.co.uk . You purchase a lodge and a set of cocoons and then if/once they have nested…
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The Crocus bulbs that we planted in the lawn.
The bulbs have finally appeared through the grass and are beautiful colours of purple, yellow, white and mixed purple and white. Download QR
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Cranford Farm – Grow Your Own Garden Series
2017 Garden walls completed, driveway tarmacked and our gates fitted. This left us to focus on planting up our front garden and courtyard with a limited budget. We decided to try to grow as much of our garden as possible. So we could focus the budget on greenhouses, aeroponics, polytunnels, seeds, bulbs, seed tents and…
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Aeroponics Pyracantha – Cranford Farm – Aeroponics Series
Aeroponics Pyracantha Progress – 2020 Two and a half years after the cuttings were taken and propagated. We used Aeroponics and the Pyracantha bushes continue spreading well in our front border. You can see move about this as part of our Aeroponics series Pyracantha 2017. They provide good ground coverage and growing tall against the…
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Cranford Farm – Aeroponics Series – Pyracantha – 2019
Progress 2019 In April the pyracantha are planted in the flower border. Without the benefit of bulbs or annuals the garden is looking a little sparse. A couple of months later the pyracantha are settling into their new home well and are growing out as well as up. Download QR
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Aeroponics Pyracantha Cuttings – Aeroponics Series
Aeroponics Pyracantha Cuttings – November 2017 Aeroponics Pyracantha Cuttings were one of the first things we propagated using aeroponic propagator (GroWell 120 Plant Aeroponic Propagator) and a Propagation Light. Using a readily available Pyracantha shrub to take some cuttings, which was growing through one of our fences in the back garden. Setting the timer provides…
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African Marigolds
Sown in March 2017 in a heated propagator under a grow light, then planted in the front flower borders during May. Producing flowers for me until October. I have been collecting and drying out the seed heads throughout the year. To be sowed in 2018 (and to give to friends and family). Although, The…
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X-Stream Heated Aeroponics Propagator – Lavatera (Tree Mallow)
On 8th July 2017 we took possession of some Lavatera cuttings from my sister-in-law and brother-in-law. When we took the cuttings the Lavatera was hosting a beautiful display of pink flowers and was probably standing about six feet tall. By 20th July 2017 two of the cuttings were starting to develop long roots. A third one started to…
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Aeroponics Series – Blackcurrants – 2017
Currants seem to be the quickest thing to root in the Aero , we have had signs of roots in 4 days . We have been growing these to plant up in the back garden. Once they have started fruiting, we will pick the blackcurrants. Freeze them and then use them in smaller quantities to…