Harvesting and Storing Vegetables
Here's how to harvest and store your vegetables.
Beginner veg growing
Gardening with Children: Top Tips On Where to Begin!
Gardening with children is a great way to introduce them to nature and for them to interact and learn about the environment around them. During the holidays it …
National Gardening Week: 5 Benefits of Gardening
It’s National Gardening Week, and we’re celebrating all the benefits associated with getting out into the garden as much as you can. National Gardening …
March 1906 – Gardening Advice
Read on to see what seasonal advice was being given to allotment holders and working gardeners back in March 1906. Much of it still holds good
Make Your Own Scarecrow
Are your children getting bored with the holidays yet? Are you all wondering quite why they need be so long? Here’s something to keep them quiet for a …
How to reduce the effects of hay fever in the garden
One in five people suffer from hay fever at some point in their life, and find summer a time to be endured rather than enjoyed. As hay fever is an allergic …
The Art of Grafting
It would be easy to think that the art of grafting one plant onto the rootstock of another is relatively new but in fact evidence exists of it having been used …
Tomato Plant Destroyers
My tomato plants are no more. After a long and arduous journey they have gone to tomato plant heaven (i.e. the compost). They were doing ok up to …
Tomato Boils and Bubbles
Was happily fiddling with my tomatoes the other day when I pulled back in horror. On the bottom side of the lowest branch (or stem or whatever it’s …
Slugs slugs slugs
Back when I embarked on this little gardening journey of mine – I had the best intentions. I would not use any chemical pest control. I would be …