No-Dig Gardening

May 8, 2012 Trish Ish 2

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 […]

Peat-Free Seed Sowing by Emma Cooper

February 13, 2012 Trish Ish 2

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 […]

Composting by Andy Hamilton

October 28, 2009 Andy Hamilton 0

If you are going to grow organically then composting should be one of your number one priorities. Much of the compost that is bought from garden centres comes from non renewable peat bogs and, as […]