Growing and Gardening in Spain
All about gardening in Spain and growing your own flowers, fruits and vegetables under the Spanish sun.
We came back from Cuba with the following list of ideas and important reminders of things that many gardeners don’t do sufficiently or frequently enough especially to maximise the flavour, bite and yield of vegetable and fruit gardens.
By Clodagh and Dick Handscombe practical gardeners, authors and broadcasters living in Spain who made an informal study tour of Cuban vegetable and fruit growing areas four years ago.
Wherever one gardens in Spain, May is essentially Spring although in cold winter Catalunia it will be the start and in warmer winter Andulucia the end. However essential jobs for all will include the following.
Spring watering in Spain is different to that of northern climates. Includes ten simple solutions.
Read: Spring Watering in Spain
How the Spanish gardens are coping after the warmest spring for years and the top ten April tasks.
Geraniums and pelargoniums are the traditional plant of Spain. Find out how we grow ours.
Clodagh and Dick Handscombe will be manning the Gardeners Help Desk in Alicante
At the beginning of 2008 we set out to provide month by month checklists of some of the most important things that need doing in gardens in Spain. In this article we look at March.
What plants are available in Spain for gardeners used to growing in more northern climates
How we live the good life, self sufficiency from our holisitc Spanish garden
