Urban Planters / Container Gardening for vegetable growers. An image blog post. Wooden Wine Boxes make great little planters for herbs and salads.
Seaweed and Potatoes
A Protective Seaweed Mulch I took the opposite photo in early January, it’s frosty seaweed obviously but it’s in my garden rather than on the beach. I prepared most of ….Read more
How To Grow The Best Tomato Seedlings
One of the things first time vegetable gardeners ask about when they call or email us is tomatoes – everyone wants to grow their own tomatoes. This is a bit ….Read more
How to Make a Heat Bench Propagator Using a Soil Warming Cable.
We propagate large amounts of vegetable seedlings in the early spring so need some heat to get them going. Clearly a heated propagator or heat mat isn’t really practical as ….Read more
Germinating Vegetable Seeds in a Heated Propagator
If you’re staring off your vegetable plants in early Spring you’ll need to give them some heat as temperatures will be too cold for the seeds to germinate. If you’re ….Read more
Growing Potatoes
For me potatoes are the backbone of the vegetable garden. You get them in relatively early and apart from some earthing up and keeping an eye out for blight there ….Read more
Foraging in Early Spring with Kit O Ceirin
Kit and her late husband Cyril wrote ‘Wild and Free – Cooking from Nature’ in 1978 in an attempt to document the wild foods available in Ireland’s hedgerows and meadows. ….Read more
Top 10 Facts About Tomatoes
Tomatoes are easy to grow and are becoming a more and more popular crop. A couple of tomato plants will produce hundreds of fruit and keep you in fresh tomatoes ….Read more
Top 10 Interesting Facts About Soil
Soil is often overlooked even though it is the foundation of a successful vegetable garden. Growing vegetables can be tough on the soil as they are very greedy plants and ….Read more
Why Use A Raised Bed For Vegetable Gardening? – Top 10 List
Our timber raised beds are the perfect way to grow vegetables in your garden or allotment. This method makes growing your own so much easier for many reasons, here are our ….Read more