Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. The potager is full of bright stems and glossy leaves of chard, winter salad leaves and herbs as well as beetroot, leeks and turnip. Great for beginners, this journal has a glossary of gardening terms and tools, so you can learn on the go.

We embrace wildness where it can flourish in areas of the garden and allow weeds such as dandelion and daisies, clover and self-heal to make our grass interesting for wildlife and us.Its pages help you keep tabs on your ideas and priorities and the to-do list style is designed to let you develop and track good habits like regular watering and pruning.

The RHS Wild in the Garden Diary 2023 celebrates British wildlife at its very best, and is the perfect gift for all keen gardeners, bird watchers and animal lovers. Despite the odd cold night and hint of frost, the temperatures have not yet dipped enough to halt the flowering cosmos, calendula and evening primrose, adding to the autumnal colours from the crimson stems of dogwood and the golden witch hazel leaves. I seems appropriate to publish this post on the first day of the new year, 2024 when I will be preparing for creating the first pages of my garden journal January 2024. For example, many mature plants can be divided (geraniums, rhubarb, chives), strawberries produce baby plants from runners and these can be potted up, or you can expand your plant collection by taking cuttings. It features a weather month calendar at the start of each new month so you can plan in weather forecasts around your gardening activity.It is hard to believe that we are already looking at the entries for the last month of 2023, a difficult year for gardens and gardeners alike, trying to cope with unusual weather events and mixed up seasons. The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804 and has established itself as the leading gardening charity, with the aim of inspiring passion and excellence in the science, art and practice of horticulture. I wrote, “These grasses remained bright yellow into December, which arrived bringing with it cold, wet days with the occasional blue sky days with frosts cold enough to blacken our dahlias. Slugs have enjoyed feasting on many of our cauliflowers but the surviving one was carefully picked and divided between volunteers!

I share my garden with Jude my wife a newly retired teacher , eight assorted chickens and a plethora of wildlife.There’s space for you to reflect on last year and plenty more space for your goals and to do lists for each day of the year ahead.

All their paper products are printed and finished in England using either 100% recycled or FSC certified paper. It’s also packed with all your favourite features, including key dates for gardeners, my monthly gardening tips and my favourite gardens to visit each month. Pots of sedums do not mind the cold but hate the wet weather, so they also come inside for the winter.Now I live back in the Braziers Park community and grow vegetables in our beautiful walled garden, with the help of some great volunteers. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Garden day: there’s Mary pruning the plum on the wall, Peter is weeding and pulling bindweed from the squash bed and putting cardboard down to help keep in the moisture and suppress more weeds. We have a large garden and 55 acres of land and I believe that at this time, given the threats to our climate and ultimately our economic system, we should be growing much more food (and for more on that have a look at Chris Smaje’s book A Small Farm Future).