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Gardening: Your fruit and vegetable weekly update Oct 22 2011

1Vegetables – check stored vegetables and remove any that have rotted. Finish off any serious ground cultivations before the soil gets too wet, adding organic matter as necessary. Support tall brassicas such as sprouts and broccoli with canes. Clear out and wash glasshouses, cold frames and polythene structures using a garden cleaning product such as Jeyes Fluid – read instructions carefully beforehand.Read

Gardening: Celebrating our native oaks Oct 15 2011

IN THE light of the recent announcement by the Woodland Trust about their plans for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee (see below for more information), I thought it might be interesting to take a look at one or two of our native trees.Read

Gardening: Lift chives and mint now for fresh herbs this winter Oct 15 2011

1 Lift some small pieces of chives and mint and bring them into a warm glasshouse or onto a warm, sunny windowsill for some fresh herbs in a week or two. Sow one or two pots of salad leaves on a sunny windowsill to make winter salads just a little more interesting. There is still time to plant overwintering onions and garlic in some well-prepared ground. Attack patches of invasive perennial weeds in your vegetable garden now with a fork to remove rhizomes, stolons and tap-roots.Read

Gardening: Why in my garden, brown is beautiful Oct 15 2011

DON’T LOOK down on brown. Yes, that’s right, brown foliage.Read

Gardening: Events for your diary Oct 08 2011

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

Gardening: The proliferation of nature Oct 08 2011

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

Gardening: Top tips for the week Oct 08 2011

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

Gardening: Fruit and veg update Oct 08 2011

_ 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

Gardening: Harrogate show proves gardeners know their onions Oct 01 2011

THE COUNTRY’S finest growers put on a spectacular show.Read

Gardening: Jobs to do in your garden this week Oct 01 2011

THE winner of our children’s summer photographic competition is Niamh Warnock from Greetland near Halifax.Read

Gardening: Hedging your bets with box plants Oct 01 2011

BOX HEDGING tends to give us ideas of larger country houses and National Trust properties but, in our ordinary urban and suburban gardens it can add a sense of formality to an informal garden without us having to clip 100’s of metres of formal hedges and parterres.Read

Gardening: Holmfirth Civic Society Gardeners’ Question Time Oct 01 2011

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.Read

Graham Porter gardening: Cut off your asparagus tops Sep 24 2011

1VEGETABLES – cut off asparagus tops once the fine foliage starts to turn yellow and mulch the bed with well-rotted animal manure or garden compost. Plant out overwintering onion sets and garlic cloves over the next few weeks and sow a few rows of Aquadulce Claudia broad beans for an early crop next spring. You might also try a row or two of Feltham First or Kelvedon Wonder peas. Sow green manures on vacant land if you do not fancy a bit of strenuous double digging!Read

Graham Porter’s gardening diary Sep 24 2011

` Holme Valley Chrysanthemum, Dahlia and Vegetable Society Annual Open Show – Armitage’s Pennine Garden Centre once again hosts this annual spectacle today and tomorrow with sale of blooms and produce at 3.15pm tomorrow. With over 40 classes of flowers and vegetables to see, it is always a fabulous show.Read

Graham Porter gardning: The false castor oil plant Sep 24 2011

FOR those that were fed castor oil as children, the name probably sends shivers down your spine.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening: Official comeback for community gardening Sep 24 2011

BACK in May, I wrote a piece about all the wonderful community gardening activities that are going on in our area and it seems that our government is doing its bit to help us – probably David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ again!Read

Graham Porter's gardening: Fruit and veg Sep 17 2011

1 Vegetables – check any dry stored vegetables such as potatoes and onions for soft rots and remove them immediately. Read

Graham Porter's gardening: Diary Sep 17 2011

Put these dates in your diaryRead

Graham Porter's gardening: Plant of the week – Rowan Sep 17 2011

ROWANS are remarkable.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening: Golden wonders Sep 17 2011

IF you have travelled along the railway line from Huddersfield to Leeds during the spring and summer time, you may have noticed small patches of mildly golden-leaved Elderberries that seem to be populating the railway embankments.Read

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