Growing vegetables throughout the winter months

With the help of a little cover and some carefully selected varieties vegetables and herbs and be grow all year round with many being able to be sown or planted directly outdoors.

If you would like free information on which vegetables you can continue to grow throughout the autumn/ winter please visit :

Thompson and Morgan

Royal Horticultural Society

Garden Organic

A final harvest of tomatoes before preparing the planter for autumn

Cleaning out some of the bird nest boxes

You can find more information on maintaining bird nest boxes on the RSPB website here. 

Maintaining the area around my planters

Free wildlife spotter sheets to download from Wildlife Watch

The Wildlife Trusts Wildlife Watch has produced a large variety of free wildlife spotter sheets which can be easily downloaded from their website here.

Back on the wildlife friendly banking area to tidy the edging

A rewarding morning for Graham - maintaining the wildlife friendly area

Its that time of the year again....maintaining planters

Still producing fresh tomatoes

Preparing plant pots in the poly tunnel for new seedlings

Green Heart Den Open Day - 11am - 3pm Saturday 4th Aug 2018

MIND Ulverston - mums picnic

 


                                                             

Its been a busy time in the poly tunnel

Ox eye daisies flowering in the wildlife friendly areas

A large skipper and a painted lady butterfly

Common lizards enjoying the early morning sun

Ornamental poppies brighten up a raised planter

Vipers bugloss and musk mallow in the wildlife friendly areas

A wide range of plants are being grown this year

Soon be time to begin harvesting the salad leaf crops

Yellow rattle on our wildlife friendly banking

Yellow rattle is an attractive grassland annual which is semi-parasitic on grasses and so weakens them, giving other wild flowers a chance to compete and gradually establish themselves.