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Gardening - Vegetables to eat.
Flowers to appreciate.

Come and join me, Ken Brown, in my garden and I will share with you the daily joys, sorrows and therapeutic benefits of gardening or as I often call it, Dallying in the Dirt. I have been trying to convince mother nature to do her landscape my way, for many years and her responses in my garden are usually very humbling, occasionally encouraging, frequently amusing but always quite gratifying. We continue to discuss, (argue about,) our seperate definitions of a weed.




It's always very important to take the time to enjoy the fruits of your labours. "Chutney" the mastiff mastered that art.




Over the years I have created a number of gardens. Some have fed me. Some filled with flowers and vegetables, have been works of art. Some have been quite large and others tidy miniatures. I've tried, frequently successfully, to grow a wide variety of things in containers of every sort.

There has probably been more gardens indoors then outdoors because
indoor gardening was the activity that paid the bills so that I could indulge in my own outdoor gardens

I have tried valiantly to break every gardening ‘rule’ that I've ever heared. That tactic has always been instructive, frequently painfully so. Apparently some gardening rules have some validity. I'll share with you the lessons I've learned and introduce you to some of the bugs and beasties I've met along the way.

I live in and for my gardens as they continually provide me with the material for my Garden Writing and Photography and the content of my gardening seminars as well as a constant source of sustenance for the both the body and the soul.




You too, can learn to
grow
and enjoy vegetables

such as ‘Curried Grilled Eggplant.’
I will take you from
seeds to plate.




My goal on these pages is to share my hard earned gardening knowledge and passionate but always light hearted outlook, in the hope that you may learn from my mistakes, (leaving you free to make new ones in your garden.) Then you can sow your own seeds that will yield the joyful daily harvest that gardening provides when we are Dallying in the Dirt.

What's New


March 05 2008
Sweet Peppers : a range of colours and shapes, easily grown from seed.

March 12 2008
Cymbidiums: possibly the easiest Orchid as a part-time houseplant.

March 17 2008
Mid winter Hibiscus pruning; great therapy!

March 17 2008
Zucchini: the easy and prolific vegetable.

March 19 2008
Chinese vegetables; more accurately called Asian, are some of the earliest to crop in our gardens.

March 24 2008
A vegetable gardening primer - starring the humble carrot.

March 26 2008
Raspberries in your garden well worth the bit of work.

April 02 2008
Broccoli, Cauliflower, Kohl Rabi and all their cousins in the Cruciferae family.

I took a couple of weeks away from the web to clean up the garden

April 22 2008
Cucumbers on an Obelisk; a decorative but delicious garden feature.

April 25 2008
Pole Beans, great taste and variety from a small space.

April 30 2008
Spider mites are a nasty plant bug that isn't really a bug.

May 03 2008
Basil - the essential herb, plus a couple of basil recipes.

May 15 2008
A Pillar of Peppers; the ultimate vertical vegetable garden.

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Regular Tips and Smiles from Ken’s Gardening Activities

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