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
Germination Facts and Temperatures
Temperature plays a vital role in ensuring that your plants germinate successfully so we have made this handy graph above containing the optimum germination temperatures for each type of crop ….Read more
The Most Amazing Spectacular Tomato Facts & Infographic
Interesting Tomato Info graphic Here’s a little infographic about everyones favourite fruit ( or is it a vegetable ?? ) the tomato. Enjoy. While our tomato infographic may be self ….Read more
5 Good Things To Do With Autumn Leaves
There’s something quite pleasant about raking up Autumn leaves, it feels like such an ancient, seasonal practice that it connects you not only with the current yearly cycle but to ….Read more
Garden Gift Ideas For All Occasions
I’ll be honest, I’m not a natural salesman despite the fact I’m supposed to be in online sales. I’m much happier on the editorial side of things but as we ….Read more
My Vegetable Garden in October
I don’t think I ever showed you my garden did I? It was originally put together as the shared Quickcrop garden but since the business moved from my house this ….Read more
Firewood, Baskets and Log Storage boxes
We had a lot of emails regarding the supply of dry firewood after a mail I sent out about wicker wood and turf baskets. Niall did a fair bit of ….Read more