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. […]
Summer in the garden is beautiful, but hauling gallons of water from the kitchen tap to your beds is neither fun nor sustainable. Here’s some tips on how to drought-proof your plot First published in […]
Huge thanks to our latest guest blogger, Rob Hopkins for allowing us to reproduce the following blog. Rob is the founder of the Transition network and author of five excellent books. Sometimes the simplest ideas carry with them, […]
In this our second instalment of guest blogs, Jono Stevens founder and chief of the excellent one man blog Real Men Sow “a cheery allotment blog”, tells us just how much an allotment can save […]
In the first of our series of guest bloggers Emma Cooper writer, gardener and podcaster, talks about peat free seed sowing. We have reached the time of year when kitchen gardeners everywhere start sowing seeds […]
pH describes how acid or alkali a soil is. Certain plants will thrive in a more alkali soil and others will do well in acid soil. Most vegetable plants like a soil which is neutral […]
Container growers know all too well that at the end of the season, once everything is harvested, they can be left with piles of spent compost. This can be rejuvenated in an ordinary compost bin. […]
The allotment pocket bible book feels like (in the best possible way) an old time gardening book you may find in an antique bookshop. It is well presented with a 1950’s style typeset and good […]
Every year many of us face the same struggle with our organic principles and slugs. Slug pellets start to look more and more attractive, they sit there on the shelf at the garden centre and […]
In the UK it is winter right up until early March and fruit trees and bushes are in their dormancy period, making this a perfect time to get pruning. During this dormancy the sap has […]
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