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Mudketeers diary -14th February 2020

14th February 2020 Steve Ott Blog

Lifting and planting strawberries A lovely day out on the plot before storm Dennis arrives. I decided to lift some strawberry runners to plant up in pots. The old bed is going to be dug up and used for vegetables but I wanted to keep some of the strawberry plants. I chose runners that had rooted and had good clean,…

Mudketeers diary – 20th January 2020

20th January 2020 Steve Ott Blog

Forcing rhubarb It was such a glorious day, the sky was blue with not a cloud in it and the sun was almost warm. I decided to tidy the rhubarb which had started sprouting well due to the mild weather. I pulled off the dead stems and also most of the larger red stalks. Then I covered the plant with…

Mudketeers diary- 17th April 2019

17th April 2019 Steve Ott Blog

Eggbox growing I decided to experiment this year with starting seedlings off in egg boxes. I bought 50 of them off Ebay and they worked out at 12p each. To give greater depth to the container I closed the box and then cut out the top. I half filled the egg box with compost and dropped a seed in each…

Getting experimental with broad beans

15th April 2019 Steve Ott Blog

There are strange goings on in the KG greenhouse and polytunnel this week Way back last autumn I decided to sow some broad beans in the KG polytunnel. This is a great way to use otherwise empty space over winter and should provide an early crop this spring. I must be honest and say I stole the idea from fellow…

CHRISTMAS LEFTOVERS: WHICH ARE SUITABLE FOR BIRDS?

28th December 2018 Steve Ott Blog

We have lots of festive leftovers at this time of year, but not all should be given to the birds, wildlife specialists CJ Wildlife explain Birds delight us with year-round visits and fun antics, plus their own wild food supplies are likely to be dwindling as the winter stretches on. However, tempting as it is to go out with a…

New Mudketeers’ website is now live!

21st December 2018 Steve Ott Blog, News

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Mudketeers diary – 10th Oct 2018

15th October 2018 Shannon Butcher Blog

Late bloomers My dahlias did not like the hot summer. They sat there doing nothing for ages. I think they were just waiting for cooler weather and now the display is lovely. This one is ‘Nicholas’. I am now hoping we don’t get frosts any time soon so I can enjoy the show a bit longer.…

Mudketeers diary -10th Oct 2018

10th October 2018 Steve Ott Blog

Growing on the web

30th August 2018 Steve Ott Blog

KG’s Olivia Peace chats to top gardening bloggers from the world-wide web. This month she meets Louise Houghton Louise Houghton has been blogging since 2015 Louise is a stay-at-home mum to her two not-so-little boys. She’s learning Welsh, she’s 50 this year and she has been using her blogging platform as a place to document the progress of turning a…

Mudketeers diary -April 25th 2018

25th April 2018 Steve Ott Blog

Tomatoes on the move The young ‘Sungold’ tomato seedlings are being split up and planted into individual 9cm pots filled with multi-purpose compost. I am keeping them in the greenhouse (unheated). It is a bit risky if we suddenly have some very cold temperatures but I think they will be okay. If we do get frosts I will have to…

Mudketeers diary-28th March 2018

28th March 2018 Steve Ott Blog

Triffid tale Nothing makes such a dramatic entrance as rhubarb. It’s thick fleshy shoots emerge from the ground like a monster from the deep. All I need do now is to mulch with some garden compost around the base making sure I don’t get too near the emerging shoots or it could cause them to rot.…

Mudketeers diary-23rd March 2018

23rd March 2018 Steve Ott Blog

Let-tuce start sowing What a lovely morning to start sowing. The sun was out, the sky was blue and from the warm comfort of the greenhouse I could hear the birds singing their little hearts out. I could feel all pressures of life just drain away as I sowed some lettuce seed in cell trays…

Mudketeers diary-13th March 2018

13th March 2018 Steve Ott Blog

Spuddy marvellous The seed potatoes are sprouting nicely. I had them in the porch for a while as I thought the greenhouse was too cold for them. I have just put them out in the greenhouse to encourage nice stout, green shoots. I won’t plant them out until late March. In fact Easter weekend seems the perfect time to plant!…

A gardener in the making

10th January 2018 Steve Ott Blog

Part time KG helper and full time journalism student Theo Osborn talks about his experience helping the team with some sowing and filming Growing up, my mum would try to make me tend to some of the gardening, though it was never the most exciting use of my time. I’d always be argumentative, gardening seemed like the be all, end…