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Welcome! I'm Tanya and I share ideas on growing organic herbs, vegetables, and fruit and then creatively using them in the home and kitchen. Learn more about Lovely Greens

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A Woman’s Garden, a new book from Tanya Anderson of Lovely Greens, covers eight categories of useful plants, over thirty-five plant-based projects and recipes, and features women gardeners from around the world

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New video✌💚 BIG Carrot Harvest from the Palle

New video✌💚 BIG Carrot Harvest from the Pallet Planter including the final weigh-in. Watch now on the Lovely Greens YouTube channel (link in bio)

Herbs. You can grow them for food, beauty, medicin

Herbs. You can grow them for food, beauty, medicine, to attract pollinators, or just because. Whatever the reason, nearly all of them are easy to grow -- many even thrive in neglect.

In this bowl are chamomile, fennel, Korean mint, apple mint, chocolate mint, thyme and flat-leaf parsley. All gorgeous flavours and they smell great too ✌💚

Time to clean out the greenhouse. That means remov

Time to clean out the greenhouse. That means removing all of the tomato flowers off the plants so they can focus on ripening the green fruit. It also means taking out the last cucumber after I harvest this last fruit.

What are you up to this weekend? 💚✌

Aren't they lovely? These are possibly the last bo

🐞🦋🐛 Garden favourites and unsung heroes.

🐞🦋🐛 Garden favourites and unsung heroes. This is one of the themes in @francestophill 's new book and one of the main topics we spoke about in yesterday’s Instagram Live (the video is saved in my IG TV tab)

We can’t deny that each of us has an opinion of which garden wildlife is “good” and which ones are “bad.” Some of us detest spiders, while some of us (me) love them. There are others that we have low opinions of, such as flies, slugs, and earwigs that are important in creating compost – gardener’s black gold. There are plenty of animals that we’re unaware of or feel ambivalent towards, too, and ones that we don’t know are endangered.

I just took a stroll around the home garden looking for some of these underdogs, and it’s incredible how many are there if you look for them: woodlice, flies, cabbage white caterpillars, moths, and even plants like dandelions and plantain. I’m happy that they’re there and playing an essential role in bringing an aspect of wild to my growing spaces. It’s a good sign.

Frances’s book, ‘Rewild Your Garden,’ is an enlightening read and packed with ideas for inviting nature in. Ideas that can even reduce the amount of money and time we spend trying to keep our gardens perfect too. It’s a reminder that beauty and life are in the imperfections, and you can find it under every stone and log and overgrown hedge.

Thank you to all who shared their garden favourites and unsung heroes on yesterday’s post. The winners for a free copy of Rewild Your Garden are @sarah.a.mist and @lornastewart24.

Their favourite unsung heroes are the dandelion (an important source of spring food for bees) and slow worms, legless lizards that look much like snakes but eat slugs!

Congratulations to both of you and expect to be contacted soon. You’ll get a copy of the new book, ‘Bees and Their Keepers’ too 🐝🐝🐝

In a few hour's time, I'll be chatting live with F

In a few hour's time, I'll be chatting live with Frances Tophill for the first time since she visited the Isle of Man in 2019. I'm sure we'll have as much of a laugh as we did before 😊

In the live, we'll be chatting about her new book, Rewild Your Garden, and I'll be sharing how you can win a copy of it too! I have two to give away, and the lucky winners will also receive a second book, Bees and Their Keepers from Lotte Moller.

Catch you at 5.15 pm British Standard Time (12.15 EST) here on Instagram ✌💚

✌💚 There are three main tactics that I use to

✌💚 There are three main tactics that I use to reduce weeds in my garden. Weeds being plants that persistently outstay their welcome, and that make growing a garden challenging.

I share these tips in today's new YouTube video and one of them is visible from all the photos in this post. Have a watch to see what all three are on the Lovely Greens YouTube channel -- link in bio

🍂💚 The bliss of a dry autumn breeze, berry-s

🍂💚 The bliss of a dry autumn breeze, berry-stained fingers, and a tub of raspberries to take home. Don't you love September?

Who needs blue skies when you have a blue camper?

Who needs blue skies when you have a blue camper? 😍 Daisy Blue is finally coming home this weekend!

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