All about growing an Apple Tree in the UK Are you looking to grow apple trees in the UK? With its temperate climate and fertile soils, the UK is an ideal location for growing apple trees. However, with so many apple tree varieties and rootstocks to choose from, it can be overwhelming to decide which…
Planting Seeds With improving weather and warmer days, you can start to seriously get into sowing your vegetable seeds. If you have a greenhouse or a polytunnel, or even a windowsill at home, sowing under cover will protect your seedlings from unexpected cold spells and also from pests. Many seeds will also germinate and grow…
THE TATSFIELD GARDENER IN APRIL There seems to be a pattern emerging for our local weather, the winter is starting later and the long term forecast for April suggests that the cold weather may come and go with brief periods of cold frosty weather in the first half of the month. Perhaps I am wrong…
Tatsfield Garden Club Meeting with Bryan Everest on 7th March 2023 Our garden club meeting in March was well supported by 27 keen Tatsfield gardeners and wow were we in for a treat. Bryan Everest entertained us so much that he lit up the WI Hall with his wit and humour and had us all…
THE TATSFIELD GARDENER IN MARCH As I write these notes (mid February) I have been watching bumble bees and butterflies in the garden drawn there by the lovely scent of my winter flowering shrubs mentioned in my last notes. I have noticed also that the pansies and violas are now making strong growth and lots…
THE TATSFIELD GARDENER IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY A happy new gardening year to all Tatsfield gardeners, I am sure we are all wondering what challenges await us! Do you remember our super Tatsfield in Bloom project Tatsfield is Buzzing that won us another gold medal in 2017? We planted a bed full of bee friendly pollinating perennial…
TATSFIELD PARISH COUNCIL AND TATSFIELD IN BLOOM JOINT TREE-PLANTING INITIATIVE Two years ago we decided to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by collecting local seedlings of Oak and Beech and planting them around the village over the winter of 2022/23. The seedlings were donated following an appeal and have been growing at the allotment site…
THE TATSFIELD GARDENER IN DECEMBER The rainfall in November has been a bit above average and will need to stay that way if we are to replenish our deep underground aquifers before next spring. Despite the rainfall, the percolation through the chalk into the aquifers will take many months. It is about this time that…
TATSFIELD HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 15TH NOVEMBER 2022 CHAIRMAN’S ANNUAL REPORT I am still researching the history of our Society, it is clear that under various titles there has been a horticultural society in Tatsfield for over a hundred years. Like so many of our local organisations the Society continued to deal with the…
THE TATSFIELD GARDENER IN NOVEMBER Whilst mowing the Bakery Lawn recently I had comments from passing Tatsfielders on the speed of the recovery of the grass, from brown to green in just a week or so. Nature is a wonderful thing, just a decent drop of rain and some warmth in the soil and now…
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