Peat Free Compost
The bagged compost that many gardeners are familiar with has traditionally been peat-based (or has peat as an ingredient). Whether through individual experience or word of mouth, these compost mixes ......
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How to Make Leaf Mould: A Free And Natural Soil Improver
Collecting autumn leaves may seem like another garden tidying task to add to the list, but they are actually a valuable resource for the vegetable gardener. When rotted they make an excellent mulch, ...... -
A Guide to Seed & Potting Compost
I thought it might be a good idea to follow last week's article on sowing seeds with some notes on seed and potting compost. It might seem like a boring subject, but knowing your compost will become ...... -
Square Foot Vegetable Gardening Using Timber Raised Beds
What is Square Foot Gardening? Square foot gardening is a method of growing vegetables which centers around planting crops in blocks rather than rows. The system divides the growing space up int ...... -
Healthy Soil for Sustainable Irish Gardens
Soil is more than just an inert growing medium. It is home to a complex, interconnected web of soil microbes, fungi, earthworms and underground networks: an underground ecosystem that you can nurtur ...... -
What Type of Soil do I have?
Garden soil can differ greatly in terms of consistency, texture and nutrient content. By identifying and understanding the type of soil you have, you can then take steps (if any are needed) to creat ...... -
Getting the season under way
It is still early days for sowing but there are a few plants that you can start off now, especially if you are lucky enough to have a greenhouse or polytunnel. Sowing times will differ dependin ...... -
Best Compost For Urban Container Growing
If you don't have a patch of soil to grow in then clearly you will have to grow your vegetables in a container of some sort. A container grown urban garden adds life to your balcony or back yard and ...... -
2020 Quickcrop Garden Plan
Like you, I am itching to get outside and can't wait for the season to get started. This year I will be spending more time in the garden as my output of video and photos was pretty weedy last year, I ...... -
How to Grow Blueberries and Cranberrries
Blueberries are high in antioxidants so widely regarded as a 'Superfruit' (whatever that is) but taking their health benefits apart they are also exceptionally tasty so well worth growing yourself.... -
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 unfortunate as for the most part they are ...... -
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 growing in a greenhouse or pol ...... -
Envirogrind Compost - Black Gold from Killybegs
As we all know growing vegetables takes a lot out of a garden, because when we remove our nutritious crops we remove nutrition from the soil. This has to be given back. The really good stuff in ...... -
Growing Fruit in Containers
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 which should have resulted in a quick ...... -
How To Grow Sugar Snap Peas
Peas are well-suited to cooler temperate climates. In fact, when temperatures exceed 20C (70F), most varieties of peas will stop producing pods. Peas are part of the legume (Latin Leguminosae) ...... -
Small Space Gardening Tips
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 gardener, who takes advantage of every squ ...... -
Soil health, plant feed & pruning fruit.
I know I have looked at soil and plant feeds a number of times over the years but, for the benefit of new growers, I think it may be helpful to cover it again today as we prepare our gardens for a ...... -
How To Plant an Attractive Succulent Display
The trouble with pots and planters made from ceramic or stone is that they are heavy (extremely heavy if we're talking about stone), and can split in a heavy frost. From our point of view, they are ...... -
How To Grow Broad Beans
Broad beans are the simplest thing to grow. They are hardy and produce a large crop of delicious beans. I prefer to pick them young for a sweeter bean which are lovely tossed into a salad. You can e ...... -
Letters to a Beekeeper
As I've mentioned in my bee article I have accidentally ended up with a hive of bees. This is all fine and well but clearly I need to learn a lot more about them to become a successful (and expert ...... -
What are the Best Garden Soil Improvers?
For the home gardener there is absolutely nothing more important than their soil. Soil is the life blood of the garden and its makeup will have a big influence on your successes or failures. G ...... -
How to Grow Potatoes
For me potatoes are the backbone of the vegetable garden. If you get the seed potatoes in relatively early, there is very little to do apart from earthing up and keeping an eye out for blight. Potat ...... -
How to plan a vegetable garden
A new year brings with it the temptation to try something new in the garden, overhaul your growing space or simply fine-tune the way that you do things. Garden planning is something you can do ...... -
How To Grow Tomatoes
Tomatoes are one of the most rewarding crops for the home gardener to grow, simply because their flavour is so much better than their shop-bought cousins. Tomatoes grown for the supermarket shelf ha ...... -
Sustainability Statement
IntroductionAndrew and myself set up Quickcrop in 2009 when we both moved West with our families to live a more Sustainable life style. With this in mind the company was formed with Sustainability at ......