A Herbal Groundcover

Sweet Woodruff(Galium odoratum) is plant to have if you want ground cover in a shady area. The agreeable odour of Sweet Woodruff is due to a crystalline chemical principle called Coumarin, which is used in perfumery not only on account of its own fragrance but for its properties of fixing other odours hence the use in pot pourii.

One terrific plant

What I want everyone to do right now after reading this, is to go out into your garden and make sure that you've got enough DANDELIONS, if not plant some roots as quickly as possible.What a plant not only does it contribute to a salad, it makes great coffee,and many numerous uses in our lives, I haven't got the space to mention them all here,oh alright I'll mention 2 more of my favourites,its roots make a plant tonic eqiualent to comfrey so if you don't want the roots for a coffee give it to your plants (potassium feed) and yes the plant flower is good for bees,moths,butterflies looking for early nectar. HELP THE WILDLIFE, HELP YOUSELF,GET THE DANDELION DUDES!!!!!

A helping hand from Nature

A season or two ago I planted at the bottom of the garden an apple tree, raspberry canes and a gooseberry bush and while I did not neglect them I could have given them more, anyway Nature comes along with her helping hand and says here are your plants time for you to look after them and healthier plants you would not find any where. The raspberries will fruit this year and the canes for next yeat are just showing through.

Radish Box

We used these window boxes no not on the window sill but on a patch of ground at the back of the garden, the radish seem happy again these need to be grown quickly plenty of feed/water they are covered at night at the moment with a cloche. In the second photo I have put nettles around them to protect from slugs and the nettle work in another way by rotting into the compost/soil adding nitrogen and humus, fantastic plant the nettle.