What’s wrong with my compost?
Composting is not rocket science but it is easy to get it wrong. The trick is to have a balance of materials and not just throw it all in together and hope for the best. […]
Gardening
Getting ready to buy seeds?
It’s that time of year again that many of us are reaching for the seed catalogues and decided what we are going to fill those frosty winter beds with come the warmth of spring. Well […]
Book Review – Kids in the Garden
Not being a father makes it difficult to give this book a truly objective review. This troubled me somewhat, especially as I now generate the majority of my tiny income from writing and know how […]
Frost Gardeners friend or foe? – Andy Hamilton
Frost can be a gardeners friend or enemy, it is early February as I write and I am eagerly awaiting a frost to help break down the big clods of earth I have turned on […]
Wild Flower Gardens
This method of establishing a wild flower garden I stumbled on quite by mistake and have since encouraged others to try the same. After harvesting my carrots I left the land-fallow, I no longer wanted […]
Dandelion crop or pest?
Dandelions are traditionally a well-know bane of most gardeners, their deep roots make them a tough weed to eliminate from any plot. To ensure they do not return the entire root must be taken […]
No space to grow? No problem
This article originally appeared on the Big Green Idea’s newsletter for December 2008 The dream of becoming self-sufficient in at least food is one that many of us aspire to but unfortunately few of us […]
How to plant a tree or a shrub in a pot
You may have been attracted to this site as you are an urbanite and you don’t have that much room to grow things. Or just looking for a cartoon tree, for more cartoons then check […]
Allotments – By Andy Hamilton
Choosing a perfect site|Alternatives to allotments | top 10 tips|other allotment related websites| If like me you live in a flat and have no garden then an allotment is an ideal way to have your […]