Bourne to Bloom - Garden Consultancy

26/11/2024

Just posted my latest article on autumn lawn care, where I talk about how to get your lawns ready for winter.

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Putting Your Lawn to Bed for Winter

07/02/2024

It’s spring soon, so it’s time do some care on any Rhubarb you might have.

Please checkout my quick how to care guide on rhubarb spring maintenance.

A short how to guide on what spring time care rhubarb needs and how to mulch with compost

10/01/2024

Nows the time to start pruning your fruit trees in your garden. Here’s a short video on how I prune espalier type apple trees that I grow against my fence.

A simple quick guide on how to prune fruit trees that are growing using the espalier method.

24/12/2023

Merry Christmas everyone 🎄🎅🎄

20/12/2023

Haven’t been to the plot for more than a week, so popped over there to turn the compost heaps. To speed the process up , you to regularly turn the heap to add oxygen for all the little microbes. It’s also important to cover, so that you can keep it warm and control the moisture levels.

Also great to see the onions have started sprouting 🧅🧅🧅

11/12/2023

Lovely afternoon spent pruning the roses of a couple down the road. After looking after nearly 1,500 roses in my old job, it’s nice to keep my eye in.

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06/12/2023

Haven’t been to the allotment for a while, but the sun was out so went to work on the soft fruit area. Planted out a red gooseberry and a raspberry that we grew in our garden last year. Going to get 3 more raspberries, so also set out a new bed for them. Finally, mulched all the plants with bark chip to help suppress the weeds around their base.

29/11/2023

Just because I can’t work at the allotment today doesn’t mean I can’t start planning on what we’re going to grow 🌱

25/11/2023

We have decided to keep this blackberry bush, as not only do the kids love them but it’ll act as a great screen to the compost area. So we had to remove the old stems and tie in the young stems along the frame. Sadly it hasn’t been pruned for a while so there’s only a few young stems that’ll produce fruit next summer. But it should produce many more stems in the spring that we can tie in for the following summer.

23/11/2023

Very satisfied to have finished clearing the last overgrown section of the plot. After removing brambles and nettles, we discovered currents, gooseberries and even potentially a blueberry. Clearing the area means we can finish creating our compost bins, whilst creating space for some fruit shrubs. Any suggestions?

14/11/2023

The onion sets are in thanks largely to my little helper (though he was very tired after rugby 🏉)

I’ve fleeced a section of the bed as a little experiment to see what difference that makes to their growing.

But it’s so satisfying to have a bed planted up just a month after taking over the plot.

14/11/2023

Hi everyone,

In case you don’t know, We’ve got myself an allotment over at Bloors lane and have setup an Instagram account charting our progress as we turn a disused plot into producing lots of fruit and veg.

If you want to follow our story then you can subscribe to my account here: