Easter Wash Out Waters Garden Divas’ Willow Planter!

Well the Easter break is truely over and what a wash out it was here!!! Despite the rain, potatoes were planted along with onion sets, carrots, and lettuce in the Garden Divas garden. (I am experimenting by planting just one seed potato into the attractive willow planter http://www.gardendivas.co.uk/details.php?prodId=230&category=5 using just compost from the compost bin to see how many new potatoes it will crop – will let you know in due course. )

The cucumbers (Marketmore) and tomatoes (Gardener’s Delight and Berry F1 ) are all growing strongly in the greenhouse; the courgettes are up as are the tagetes which will help ward off fly infestation on the roses in the summer, and I have also set some chilli seeds free with Gardener’s World magazine, so thank you to them for those!!! The small Haws watering can http://www.gardendivas.co.uk/details.php?prodId=174&category has proved to be perfect for watering delicate seedlings and, as with all Haws watering cans, looks set to last and last.

The first shoots of asparagus from the garden were enjoyed on Easter Sunday together with a rather large amount of chocolate so it is a good thing that there will be lots to do in the garden to work off all those calories!!!

I have to confess though that I managed to bend my favourite Burgon and Ball hand trowel http://www.gardendivas.co.uk/details.php?prodId=37&category -unheard of in over 30 years of gardening) which just goes to prove that you should always use the right tool for the job and that snowdrop bulbs firmly embedded deep within a bank need something a little more than a trowel to shift them!!! Oh well I will just have to choose another - now which colour shall I have?

Garden Divas is Bang on Trend!!!

Last spring we were hooked on the catwalk and the floral fashions we described in our June Blog entry on http://www.gardendivas.co.uk/. Nearly a year lately we’re thrilled to see this trend hit the high street. Many of you may have caught a glimpse of the fashion feature last Tuesday’s This Morning, highlighting the best pieces around.

Here are a few of our favourites (available to purchase from http://www.asos.com/), guaranteed to help you step into Spring in style...

We can’t help but think how fabulous this skirt will look with our range of Camouflage Company English Rose Products- so stylish with the cool bag http://www.gardendivas.co.uk/details.php?prodId=161&category out on a Summer’s picnic.

And do you think Karen Millen has taken inspiration from Wild and Wolf’s V&A tools http://www.gardendivas.co.uk/details.php?prodId=83&category for this gorgeous dress?

Keep “NYUDIES” in Style with Atlas Nitrile Gloves

They say you learn something new every day and I think this may be true! This week I’ve learnt a new word “NYUDIES” that apparently refers to the group of new yuppie diggers, all laying claim to an allotment and growing their own organic veggies. Whilst some seem to be upsetting the old score of allotment holders, Garden Divas is only too pleased to hear of anyone getting down to gardening.

To protect hands not used to the rigours of digging and planting, the Atlas Nitrile Touch Gloves are a must, and if you’re needing a little guidance as to what to sow and grow why not read First Time Gardener by celebrity gardener Kim Wilde for some sound advice. Plus if you are really getting into the swing of it all, try our useful Gardener’s Organiser, where you can make endless notes of what you have achieved this year. It will prove indispensible!

Join Obama and Grow Some Vegetables with our Home Allotment Planters!

With President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle visiting England for the first time this week it was great to read that the First Lady has reportedly set aside 1,100 sq ft of the White House lawn to dig up and grow vegetables – 55 varieties in fact!! Not many of us have access to this much land, nor the time (and help I suspect) however, but Garden Divas is really keen that all of us should have the ability to grow a few edible items and the Home Allotment Potato Planter (http://www.gardendivas.co.uk/details.php?prodId=230&category=5) and Salad Planter (http://www.gardendivas.co.uk/details.php?prodId=230&category=5) are now in stock are just perfect where space is limited. With Easter fast approaching, it’s the perfect time for planting so why not make use of our special offer of an introductory 10% off these two items. Plant them up, keep them watered and then sit back and look forward to better days, a fresh steak from the barbeque with your own home grown new potatoes and salad – perfect!!