container growing

While I am lucky enough to have plenty of outdoor and tunnel growing space, I do grow some plants in containers (e.g. bush tomatoes) and I realise that for many...

Growing your own mushrooms can be a fun challenge for any gardener. Mushrooms are unique in that they are grown in a different way to the methods that we are al...

In a perfect world, there’d be plenty of room for gardens, greenery and foliage to exist in harmony with us as we go about our day-to-day lives. However, urbanis...

The unique selling point of the Vegepod is that it combines some of the benefits of raised bed gardening with those of growing under cover or in a cont...

So, the other week I had an email from a customer asking for advice on what soil mix to use for planting fruit trees in containers. It was a simple question w...

Tomatoes can be grown in containers like pots, planters, growbags, and hanging baskets, they may not be the easiest plant to grow at home but they are definitely...

Succulent plants make ideal indoor displays so are a great winter project (or present!) for anyone who its itching to do a bit of gardening. Plants are easy and...

We recently decided to tackle some of the gardening FAQs that we get asked most frequently on this blog. Can I grow vegetables indoors? is one of those questions...

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 just as produc...

I guess it is important to say from the outset that herbs are very easy to grow. Considering what they add in flavour - and how often you will use them - they a...

Cultivating home grown vegetables is a simple pleasure that anyone can experience, even if you have limited space. We don’t all have the benefit of a large gar...

We can't all be blessed with a large outdoor garden space, and so it is that growing vegetables in containers can be an effective way of tackling space lim...

How To Build Raised Beds This article deals with how to build raised garden beds, what is the best size to make them and what is the best material to use. We wi...

Beginners Gardening Kits Vegetable gardening can be a little intimidating to the beginner and it is hard to know where to start with all the various information...

Using growbags couldn’t be easier, here is how to grow potatoes in a bag. The great thing about potatoes is that they can be grown almost anywhere, even if space...

Growing carrots in containers can be more successful than you would expect, and it is a great way to begin growing your own food at home. Patio planters...

The number of people having a go at producing some of there own fresh produce is on the increase every year. The latest revolution is the small space urban gard...