Autumn leaves are a valuable resource for the vegetable gardener as they when rotted they make an excellent mulch, soil improver or compost mix. Making leaf mould is easy and ….Read more
How do I make my own wooden compost bin?
Hello and welcome back to the Quickcrop garden. Well, it’s a beautiful day in mid September and today we are going to build one of our large New Zealand Box ….Read more
Can I compost potato plants affected by late blight?
Can potato plants with late blight be composted? If care is taken the answer is yes. Blight spores can only survive on living plant tissue, once the foliage has been ….Read more
Quickcrop Vegetable Garden Plan 2016
Raised bed vegetable garden plan. I include my 2016 vegetable garden plan below if anyone is interested in what I’ll be growing next year. My garden is now split up ….Read more
Growing Garlic – Questions and Answers
Growing garlic is one of my favourite jobs in the vegetable garden, it is pretty much trouble free to grow and adds wonderful flavours to our home cooking. Homegrown garlic ….Read more
Know Your Onions – How to grow onions
Onions are some of the easiest things to grow and require very little looking after. As our friend Dermot Carey (last head gardener of Lissadell House) says if you can’t ….Read more
How do I deal with potato blight?
I think I mentioned last week that haven’t been spending as much time as I should have in the vegetable garden due to the uninspiring weather we have been having ….Read more
The Vegetable Garden in August – What to grow in Late Summer
I must admit I’m finding it a little difficult to write my usual [overly] enthusiastic post today as my garden isn’t quite the paradise it normally is at this time ….Read more
Raised Bed Covers
Raised Bed Covers Raised bed covers are essential for your raised vegetable garden if you want to grow later in the year and overwinter, or get an early start in ….Read more
Fencing with James
This is a follow up to a weekly newsletter post where I mentioned a guy who worked with me a number of years ago who was always good for a ….Read more