We are taking a break from the vegetable garden this week and looking at some wild flowers as they are often far prettier than anything in the garden. This week’s ….Read more
Bee friendly Planting Tips and Ideas
It is rare you come out of a pub with anything useful but it was a chance encounter in a local hostelry which led to a complete transformation in my ….Read more
New Quickcrop Fruit Cage/Bird Net Kits
I did manage to do a test build of our new fruit cage system over the weekend. The photo above shows the frame without the net obviously but this is ….Read more
Easy Home Tomato Planting Tutorial
Following on from last week’s post I thought we would continue with more planting tips, this time on tomatoes as I put some in my tunnel at the weekend. As ….Read more
Vegetable Sowing and Planting Tips
Brace yourselves folks, we are now entering the busiest time of year in the vegetable garden. The soil has warmed sufficiently for sowing and planting out but has also warmed ….Read more
Growing Brassicas – How we bred this amazing group of plants
The Evolution of the Wild Cabbage Plant My recent bedtime reading has been ‘The Blind Watchmaker’ by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and I am now suffering from lack of sleep. ….Read more
Planting Summer Flowering Bulbs
As some of you may remember we added daffodils and tulips to our range two years ago. I got very excited about this and was guilty of making off with ….Read more
Planting Potatoes in March
Depending on your location early potatoes are planted in mid March once the days begin to warm. To be fair, the soil is probably warm enough to plant now in ….Read more
Using a Heat Bench or Propagator to Grow Vegetable Seedlings
We are nearly at that time again when we sow some tiny seeds in compost and see them magically transform into large tomato plants bearing 15-20 kg of fruit each. ….Read more
Urban Planters – Small Garden Ideas
Small Garden Ideas Vegetable growing should be available to anyone even if you have have a very small urban garden or no garden at all. Small urban gardens can be ….Read more