Come dine with me

Come dine with me – or not when it’s so hot. After a busy week working the last thing I want to do is spend ages in the kitchen so at the end of last week we just had salad – no ordinary salad mind you as I had plenty of salad leaves in the garden courtesy of The Seedbed Roll an ingenious method of growing. The seeds are impregnated onto a rather bright blue matting which you just lay down onto well cultivated soil and then water it. But what I really like about it is that it has its own miniature polytunnel built in – brilliant - as I found all my yummy leaves were clean, slug free, and not nibbled by the countless rabbits that seem to congregate in my garden until my lazy cats decide to chase them away. And you can just cut it to size to fit into a planter or small space.

So here is the finished result,


looking rather delicious if I may say so, with the addition of some spicy chicken courtesy of good old M & S, crispy bacon, new potatoes, broad beans (from my garden of course) plus cucumber, peppers, tomatoes, celery – basically anything decent found in the bottom of my fridge. Just add salad dressing of your choice and tuck in.

I love this time of year in the garden when all my hard work is coming to fruition – picked a few raspberries yesterday for breakfast, had broccoli for Sunday lunch and have had broad beans galore (– a favourite dish with these is to fry a chopped small onion with crushed garlic if desired, and bacon lardons, lightly cook the beans, then stir it all together and serve piping hot.)

Luckily I’ve always been able to grow some veg or fruit even when I only had a postage stamp sized garden – growbags were the norm then. It can be time consuming I suppose but at this time of year it sure is worth it.



My veg patch!

How did we end up here?!

There are often times in life when we ask ourselves such questions and a wave of panic comes across us (or is that just me)! However with Garden Divas it is more of a positive end of a somewhat shaky start. For the full Garden Divas story you may want to check the great article on the Giddy Limits Website telling you how I turned my Midlife crisis into a fun n fab Gardening Business!
Giddy Limits is a great website full of info for the over 50s. Why not take a look at some of their other fab articles or follow their New Facebook Page.

In addition if you're really interested in how Garden Divas blossomed, why not check out our Press Releases Page for all our up to date info!

Chelsea Flower Show 2010

I was lucky enough to enjoy beautiful weather on my visit to Chelsea Flower Show last month and even though I arrived home exhausted having walked halfway across London to find a taxi – it was worth it.

Local garden designer Philippa Pearson’s Victorian Aviary garden was just one of the amazing show gardens and the sights and scents in the pavilion were just amazing. Harkness Roses based near Hitchin had a beautiful display and everywhere I looked there was an abundance of colour. And we Garden Divas do love colour!!

I also met up with Claudia from Dig It™ who manufactures the only Ladies DIY/Garden Gloves to protect your manicure – now at a special price in our June Offers.

It was great to learn about the idea behind these gloves, their development and the girls’ appearance on Canada’s Dragons Den. Claudia and I spent most of the day together and I believe she was quite overwhelmed by the experience which is Chelsea Flower Show!
If you were unable to visit Chelsea check out these funky tool belts and garden bags which were also hot sellers !!!