Euro Weekly News | Gardening
Spain’s best known expatriate gardening authors living in Spain for 25 years. This week we offer ten handy hints to make your spring gardening easier. Ecological ant control Many gardens have ant nests in holes in paths, in flower containers, under fruit trees and in flower beds each spring. The…
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WE hope that all the readers of our columns and books had a good Easter break. Now you can gear up to make the best of the Spanish Spring climate, damp soils after recent rains, spring flowering plants, home grown produce and garden wild life. If you are new to…
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SEVERAL times a year we hear about new attempts to establish English style allotments for growing your own vegetables and in some cases also fruit. Some have been launched by thoughtful town halls and others by private individuals who have unused fertile land. They stretch from the south to the…
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By Clodagh and Dick Handscombe, Spain’s best known gardening authors living in Spain for 25 years. AS spring starts to exert itself one of the delights beyond the almond blossom is the flowers of bulbous plants in both gardens and the countryside. With careful choice and care they can…
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Last week we looked at propagating plants, here are some more ways to grow your own…. Layering: Many ground cover plants and shrubs with low branches can be multiplied in this way. Just peg a branch to the ground and cover the pegged area under a heap of earth…
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MOST gardens in Spain benefit from being designed as a series of interesting mini gardens. Preferably each with its own soul and style, but integrated into an overall holistic landscape that enables great enjoyment the year round. If you have visited Cordoba you may remember the gardens of the VianaPalace.…
ALMOND blossom is now out or about to open in many areas, while others will follow within the next four to six weeks. It really is one of the nicest times of the year and one year we were able to follow the blossom from Andalucia to Aragon over a…
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THIS week we add to the advice given in our last two columns regarding the annual winter cutback. If you missed the past two weeks have a look at the chapter in our book Your Garden in Spain. From planning to planting and maintenance. If you don’t have it you…
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By Clodagh and Dick Handscombe Spain’s best known gardening authors living in Spain for twenty five years. www.gardenspain.com The Start Although the cutback starts today 7 January a few things were trimmed last week to take advantage of the continuing summer weather. Overgrown herb plants were cut , common…
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TRYING to think of a common set of new year resolutions for the EWN readership is not easy as some have large and others small properties, some have long matured gardens and others are just starting to develop new gardens and of course some live in apartments with small storage…
AS explained in Chapter 6.9 of ‘Your Garden in Spain – Planning planting and maintenance’ gardens of all sizes and complexities benefit tremendously from a major winter cut back and cleanup which in most gardens is best done during January. The reasons for this are tenfold. You will have had…
LOOKING back on the year’s gardening it has been a challenge in a number of ways. Perhaps, after the disastrous frost year of 2005 when many gardens and garden centres lost many plants, it was the most challenging since starting to experience Spanish gardening in the mid 1970’s and having…
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HAVE you ever noticed how plants appear greener and brighter after a good rainstorm? It's not just because the dust and dirt is washed off. Rainwater is a clear, salt-free source of water that contains many beneficial ingredients for plants. Rain can contain sulphur, potash, several other minerals, and even…
Keep hold of those Christmas season plastic bottles IN January and February there will be plenty of opportunity to taking cuttings for propagating new plants to extend your plantings and fill in gaps. Unfortunately, most plant pots kept from purchased plants and those available for sale in garden centres are…
OUR experience is that since the record breaking frosts of 2005 the worst frost each year is getting colder. Even if thermometers don’t actually go below zero the leaves and finer branches of plants can be burnt by air frost, where the wind chill causes freezing on the surface of leaves…
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