Gardening In Spain

A practical care and processing plan for your olive trees

Greenfinger — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:18:33 +0000

A handy guide to the care of your olive trees and making the best possible oils.

Achieving the many benefits of olive trees

Greenfinger — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:03:34 +0000

Olive trees have so many uses! So look after the ones you have and plant new ones.

Economic gardening for hard economic times

Greenfinger — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:16:04 +0000

How to cut the costs of having a beautiful and productive Mediterranean garden

Happy New Year to Spanish and other Mediterranean gardeners

Greenfinger — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:59:07 +0000

Best wishes for interesting, inspiring, colourful, perfumed, healthy and productive gardens in 2012 from Spain's best known gardening authors.

Seasonal Christmas, New Year and Los Reyes best wishes to our many garden friends in Spain and other Mediterranean countries

Greenfinger — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:32:45 +0000

Phew how fast each gardening year goes round. Not just completing the round of annual repetitive jobs that keep a garden continuously flowering and productive but also completing the new projects decided on as New Year resolutions to improve the beauty of the garden while at the same time reducing its maintenance needs, and completing twelve months of writings to introduce and supplement our books. And of course we self published a new small but important book ‘Living Well from Our Mediterranean Garden during 2011.

The fatal Palm Weevil disaster

Greenfinger — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 08:29:48 +0000

Palm weevils or beetles have become a menace worldwide, especially in Mediterranean climate situations. This article explains the scale of the problem and what can be done.

Close plantings are beneficial in Mediterranean Gardens

Greenfinger — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:52:48 +0000

By Clodagh and Dick Handscombe

Practical holistic gardeners and authors living in Spain for 25 years.

Close or carpet planting as a mulch

In May we posted an article about the importance of mulching. It can now be found in the ‘’’ archives. One of the mentioned effective ways of mulching was the close planting of plants so that their foliage touched and overlapped. This can also be referred to as carpet planting.

Spanish and Mediterranean Patio Gardens

Greenfinger — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:50:31 +0000

By Clodagh and Dick Handscombe
Practical holistic gardeners and authors living in Spain for 25 years.

The Long Tradition of Spanish & Mediterranean Patio Gardens

Patio gardens have been popular in Spain and other Mediterranean countries for two millennium and continue to be so today. For many persons living in the historic centres of towns and villages and in village style new urbanisations patio gardens are the only outdoor living space they have.

October a busy month for Spanish and other Mediterranean Gardeners

Greenfinger — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:58:01 +0000

Spanish and other Mediterranean gardeners have much to do in October.

Living Well from Our Mediterranean Garden

Greenfinger — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:45:24 +0000

Our latest book about living well and healthily from our garden in Spain