Lockdown Project Guides: Grow Onions and Shallots
An essential part of the gardener’s vegetable patch, onions and shallots are very easy to grow and come with excellent health benefits such as lowering blood …
Vegetable Growing
[IMPORTED]
Lockdown Project Guides: Grow Your Own Marvellous Mushrooms
Growing your own mushrooms using a kit is easy and our Windowsill Mushroom Kits mean anyone can grow mushrooms indoors. Whether you’re a full-time gardener …
Lockdown Project Guides: Grow Seed Potatoes in Pots & Containers
Homegrown seed potatoes are one of the most satisfying crops to grow in the garden. It’s quite easy to produce a good crop and they taste so much better than …
February Top Allotment Tips
February top allotment tips have arrived and we are still very much in the grip of winter in most parts of the UK. Despite this, the days are joyously …
How Grafted and Non-Grafted Veg Plants Are Different
Growing your own vegetables provides a number of nutritious, environmental and economic advantages over buying from a store. It is an extremely rewarding …
January Top Allotment Tips
Wow, It has been a while since I picked frozen sprouts directly from the plant! That was the wonderfully festive experience I enjoyed on Christmas Day morning …
Top December Allotment Tips
My allotment continues to provide one of the best, socially-distanced activities there is. This year above all others, allotments have proved their worth, …
Top November Allotment Tips
I made a Halloween trip to my allotment to gather the last of my sweet corn. The plants had hung on remarkably well, considering this is Northern England. The …
Top October Allotment Tips
Over the past few days, allotments up and down the land have taken on an autumnal feel. The tree foliage is beginning to drop and the days are shortening. …
Top September Allotment Tips
September is a very much a transitional month on the allotment. You could say in some respects it is out with the old and in with the new, as our summer …