As you will know from my fascinating communication a week or so ago we are now in the season for putting in bare root plants including fruit trees, hedging and ….Read more
Turn Winter into Summer with ‘Sunblaster’ Grow Lights
While you won’t be able to fool yourself that you are lying on a beach with a pina colada (Ingredients: 3 parts Pineapple juice, 1 part White rum, 1 part ….Read more
Planting Bare Root Garden Trees
Everyone seems to be talking about trees these days and with good reason. They are one of the single most effective ways to take carbon out of the atmosphere and ….Read more
Bare Root Hedge Plants & New Gro-Grid Planting Mat
You might remember from a post a few weeks back that we are now manufacturing the fabulous ‘Gro-Grid’ weed control planting mat. We have the machinery set up in our ….Read more
Planting Bare Root Fruit in Winter
I sometimes throw my vegetable garden a guilty look as I skip past it on my way to the fruit cage or down to look at my young apple trees. ….Read more
An October Weekend in the Quickcrop Garden
After a wet week last week, the weekend looked promising (well, Sunday at least) to get some work done in the garden and start preparing it for the Winter. ….Read more
The Extraordinary Migration of the Painted Lady Butterfly
The Painted Lady is a very interesting butterfly due to the vast migratory path that it traces and the fact that record numbers have been reported in the UK and ….Read more
September in the Vegetable Garden – Feeding and protecting your soil
It is has been an interesting year in the Quickcrop garden with a hot and dry start followed by plenty of rain. The overcast or rainy days have not been ….Read more
Moths – The Unseen Nocturnal Pollinator
I thought we’d do one last ‘Friday Facts’ on unsung pollinator heroes before moving on to another subject next week. Today I am taking a quick look at moths as ….Read more
Another unsung pollinator hero – the Hoverfly!
This Friday I thought we’d continue looking at pollinators as we had such a good response from our first ‘Friday Facts’ on solitary bees. Solitary bees tend to be overlooked ….Read more