Oct
2011
Articles from 8th Oct 2011
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Gardening: Fruit and veg update
Oct 08 2011 | Gardening Tips
_ Vegetables – as the thud of the new 2012 seed catalogues on the hall door mat is heard all over Britain, it is time to start considering what we are all going to attempt to grow in our vegetable gardens next year. I have received Thomson and Morgan’s, D.T.Brown’s and Suttons so far and there are some interesting new varieties to look at. Read
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Gardening: Top tips for the week
Oct 08 2011 | Gardening Tips
Spring clean your pond – cut back the dying foliage of marginal plants and remove yellowing water lily leaves now to stop them polluting the water. Read
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Gardening: The proliferation of nature
Oct 08 2011 | Gardening Tips
DESPITE the doom-mongers’ forecasts of human activity, climate change and/or global warming gradually destroying our planet and the concerns about some species of birds, mammals, plants, butterflies and insects disappearing from our world, it would seem that, in Huddersfield, nature is doing very nicely. Read
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Gardening: Events for your diary
Oct 08 2011 | Gardening Tips
1 Holmfirth Civic Society Gardeners’ Question Time – put October 20 in your diary and come along to the Holmfirth Civic Hall on Huddersfield Road for 7.30pm where you will find yours truly answering all your gardening questions in a Gardeners’ Question Time evening. The room is limited to 120 people so get there early. There will be a raffle and tea and biscuits at half time. Entry is £3 per head for those who are not Civic Society members and the evening will also be helping to raise funds for the Forget Me Not Childrens’ Hospice. For more information call Margaret Hinchliffe on 01484 683242. Read
