If you were alive 144 million years ago, you wouldn’t need to worry about providing winter food for wild birds because you would have been on the menu yourself. It ….Read more
Stuff for gardeners to do in winter.
Firstly, my apologies for my absence over the last couple of weeks. We have been trying to get our new website finished and it is taking forever. I am confident ….Read more
The Vegetable Garden in October
Preparing the garden for winter I know I mentioned feeding your soil in some detail at the end of August but it really is the best thing you can do ….Read more
Storing & Preserving Homegrown Vegetables.
As September is one of the busiest harvesting months, this week I thought it might be helpful to talk about preserving or storing vegetables over winter as, if your garden ….Read more
September in the Quickcrop Garden
As you know, September is about the final act in the vegetable garden when we harvest many of our crops and prepare the soil for winter. This week I have ….Read more
September Seeds & Super Soil
September in the Vegetable Garden Following our article on Autumn sowing for the polytunnel (17th August), we have had a number of requests for information on outdoor sowing in September, ….Read more
Late August Garden Update & Protecting Your Soil.
This week we are back in the vegetable garden to look at growth towards the end of the season and to make sure we get the best possible harvests before ….Read more
What to Grow in the Polytunnel in Winter
Winter in the Polytunnel or Greenhouse We had a number of questions recently on polytunnel growing, particularly whether polytunnels are worth the investment and whether it is true that they ….Read more
August in the Quickcrop Vegetable Garden
I can’t believe I am already writing about the vegetable garden in August, where has all that time gone? I don’t know what the weather is like where you are ….Read more
Tomato Troubles – a guide to tomato fruiting problems
Tomato fruit problems In general tomatoes are easy to grow plants and will usually produce something no matter what you do to them but, for good yields of high quality ….Read more