Independent gardening advice for real gardens, balconies and windowsills.
Balconies, patios and tiny plots: smart container and vertical strategies for growing more in less space.
A few hints on its construction--Aspect and soil--A list of Alpines--Other suitable plants. A well-constructed rockery filled with a good selection of Alpine plants is a =never-failing delight= to any...
What to go in for, and what to avoid--Brick walls--Trees, their advantages and disadvantages, etc. It is imperative that =a small garden=, such as one generally finds attached to suburban or small hou...
Planting--Watering--"Puddling"--Aspect--Shelter--Youth and age in relation to plants--Catalogue defects--A time for everything. Now that we have seen what to plant, it will be advisable to learn =how...
Best kinds for "roughing" it--Importance of cleanliness--The proper way of watering them. The majority of English women like to see their rooms, and specially their drawing-rooms, adorned with =growin...
Fruit--The best kinds for a small garden--Avoidance of size minus flavour--Vegetables--Herbs. If a small garden has room for any fruit-trees, =apples are the most useful= kind to grow; they can be so...
By dividing--By cuttings--By seeds--By layers. =Propagation may be affected in various ways=, of which division is perhaps the easiest. It must be done very carefully, or decay will set in. Some plant...
Artificial manures--Labelling--Cutting off dead flowers--Buying plants--Tidiness in the garden, etc. With far the larger half of our population =the question of cost= comes into everything. There are...
JANUARY. Average Temperature 37. In frosty weather wheel manure on to ground. See that every plant which is not quite hardy is well protected from frost. Shake off any snow which may be lying on the b...
How to make them--Relation of box to residence they are intended to adorn--Suitable soil--Window plants for different aspects. Where gardens are small, one seems to need window boxes more than where t...