Yazan: Dave | 25 May 2013 | No Comments
Categories: General Gardening
Irrigation Regardless if you believe in climate change or not you cannot deny our weather is becoming more unpredictable. In the past we could rely on steady spring showers watering all our newly planted seedlings. Nowadays the spring can be one of the driest months of the year and without vigilant watering newly planted crops [...]
Yazan: admin | 08 May 2013 | No Comments
Categories: General Gardening, Uncategorized
Here’s another very old article I’ve decided to resurrect, some of the links go to the old website and may look a little dated now! The garden in May can be a busy time for the organic grower. A word of warning do think before you plant out those tender vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers; [...]
Yazan: Dave | 24 April 2013 | 11 Comments
Categories: General Gardening, Vegetables
The easiest way to cram a lot of plants into a small space is to grow them in pots on weather-proof shelves. Cheap(ish) plastic garden shelving can now be bought from major retailers. However, in my experience these are a false economy as they only have a limited life span – the plastic doesn’t seem [...]
Yazan: Dave | 21 April 2013 | No Comments
Categories: General Gardening, Uncategorized, Vegetables
The different systems of crop rotation are as varied as the people who employ them. Some will have a four year plan and others will rotate every three years. Some will always start with potatoes and others will prefer to start with fertility building plants, such as edible legumes, usually peas and beans or green [...]
Yazan: Dave | 13 February 2013 | No Comments
Categories: General Gardening, Uncategorized
In the first part of where to garden I covered garden share schemes and community gardens. These are the obvious first choices but they are by no means all there is to offer for the garden-less gardener. Gardening indoors Taken from grow your food for free You may well grow indoor house-plants, but perhaps seldom [...]
Yazan: Dave | 23 January 2013 | 5 Comments
Categories: General Gardening, Videos
David Attenborough has described humans a “plague on the earth”. This ever-increasing ‘plague’ of humans has meant less room for what was once a necessity, a small patch of land which to grow food. However, lack of land does not automatically mean no-where to grow. With a little imagination, there are plenty of places to [...]
Yazan: Dave | 26 August 2012 | No Comments
Categories: General Gardening
Soil is a very complex living thing. In just one gram there can be over a 1000 million organisms, most of them beneficial to the gardener. These organisms help weather rocks, releasing their mineral content for our plants and aid the breakdown of organic matter, in turn releasing further nutrients for our ever hungry crops. [...]
Yazan: Dave | 30 May 2012 | 2 Comments
Categories: foraging, Fruit growing, General Gardening, Wild foods
Fuchsia Both the flowers and berries of the fuchsia are edible. There are even recipes for fuchsia berry jam! The flavour varies from juicy to petrol like. Season – All year round in some parts of the country, will die back in hard frost Hops We all know that hop flowers help flavour beer but [...]
Yazan: Dave | 08 May 2012 | 1 Comment
Categories: Enivronmentally friendly, General Gardening, No Dig, Reference, Vegetables
The following article first appeared in ‘Grow your own’ magazine back in February as part of my ‘Theory Behind…’ series. In traditional gardening and farming, land is weeded and/or cleared of crops before a soil improver such as compost and/or manure is dug or ploughed into the soil to improve the soil structure, aerate the [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 30 April 2012 | No Comments
Categories: Courses, Enivronmentally friendly, General Gardening, guest blogs, Reference, Videos
It’s that time of year. The grass is beginning to grow, and faster than you would imagine it could. Suddenly, it’s getting to the stage where it needs cutting, lest it overwhelm your food crops or smother your flower seeds or simply ruin your well-tended croquet lawn.
