Posts Tagged ‘mulch’

DIRTY NAILS BLOG by Joe Hashman BROCCOLI RAAB ’60 DAYS’

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

BROCCOLI RAAB ‘60 DAYS’ This week I’ve been been picking the broccoli-like shoots of a quick-growing vegetable known in its Southern Italian homelands as Broccoletti and elsewhere as Rapini. As seed in local shops and garden centres it comes, pre-packed, as Broccoli raab ’60 days’. Five hundred magic pieces cost the same as a loaf of sliced [...]

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25 March 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman DEMONSTRATION BEDS AT ORCHARD PARK GARDEN CENTRE – WORK BEGINS

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

25 March 2009 DEMONSTRATION BEDS AT ORCHARD PARK GARDEN CENTRE – WORK BEGINS The first steps towards creating a set of demonstration vegetable beds at Orchard Park Garden Centre in Gillingham were taken today. I had a nine o’clock meet with Richard the Managing Director and Deputy Manager Andy. We chatted first, then twenty minutes [...]

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