Growing and Gardening in Spain
All about gardening in Spain and growing your own flowers, fruits and vegetables under the Spanish sun.
Spanish weather is often full of good and bad surprises. Together with the different soils, plants, pests and diseases and gardening products gardening is always a challenge. But a quartet of books is available to help you identify, understand, and overcome the challenges.
Today Spanish gardens are under threat from a number of man made risks that were not there two decades ago. This article discusses the 10 main risks
Trees provide some of the best spring and summer flower displays in the garden, a privacy and security, pollution control and absorb carbon dioxide
The Spanish housing market is in the doldrums and anyone buying has plenty to consider at bargain prices – so use your garden to sell your house
With todays continuing tough economies there are some important New Year resolutions to consider to make the best of living in Spain.
Clodagh and Dick Handscombe Gardeners, authors and broadcasters in Spain for twenty five years.
Christmas greetings to gardeners from Spain
Read: Christmas Best Wishes
What you need to do in your Spanish garden in December, whatever the weather may bring.
Don’t get bored with the Spanish sun suggests twelve gardening related activities to stop one becoming bored with the, to some, oppressive Spanish climate
Describes a practical way for lonely infirm and or inexperienced friends and neighbors to join forces to become self sufficient by sharing effort, time, experience and in some cases land.
Read: Growing Circles – A practical idea for self sufficiency in 2010
A two episode case history of how an expat couple have become very self sufficient from their Spanish garden. This is part 2
