The highlight of the Autumn calendar for most gardeners is the long anticipated pumpkin harvest, and this year…
Oct 27
Oct 15
Apple Dorset Cake
Luckily for us, when we moved here back in 2022 the garden already had a few apple trees.…
Oct 09
The Orchard Harvest
The little orchard is pretty much still a work in progress, and one which is progressing beautifully. When…
Oct 06
Jacket Potato Harvest…
We finally got round to harvesting the rest of the potatoes and what a harvest it was… The…
Sep 30
A Summer round-up!
Well hello! It’s been a good few months since my last post here… what with a busy old…
Aug 08
Potting Shed Diaries – Episode Six – August 2025
Hello and welcome to The Old Orchard Garden! Join me with a cup of tea in the potting…
Jul 24
Episode Nine – Cut Flower Patch Tour – July 2025
Hello and welcome to The Old Orchard Garden! We’re in the height of Summer in the UK so…
Mar 10
The Cut Flower Patch
One of this years big projects… and I stress the ‘one’ part because we have quite a few…
Feb 12
A day in the garden…
What do you do when you have a whole weekend off? You spend it shovelling manure of course!…
Jan 27
January in the garden
We had a huge delivery of farm manure last week and it’s been patiently waiting on our driveway…
Jan 20
Winter Harvests
The frost is gone, ice melted and snow thawed… which means one thing, garden time! I’m very keen…
Jan 11
A chilly start to 2025…
It’s been an awfully chilly start to 2025 with lows of -8 celcius, snow, ice and solid frozen…
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