Become a vegetable “expert”
Sowing vegetable seeds, how difficult can it be? It’s easy, it must be, all you have to do is follow the instructions on the packet,don’t you? Well, yes and no, depending on where you live, […]
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What to do if you get potato blight
If you grow potatoes, they’ll almost certainly get blight at some point. The first sign is brown spots on the leaves, which may have yellow borders. This quickly spreads and withers all the leaves, until […]
Growing in Small Spaces 1 – Garden Shelves
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 […]
51 organic ways to get rid of slugs – By the ishers and Andy Hamilton
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 […]
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 […]
Organic Container gardening by Andy Hamilton
So you live in a flat or a house with a small back yard and just don’t have room for gardening? Many people will take one look at this site and think, “I live in […]
Organic Gardening Jobs – February
February to me is the true start to a new year, this is the time that you can really get stuck in for the growing season. It is the last month that we are almost […]
Radishes – Organic History, Varieties and Organic growing advice by Andy Hamilton
Radishes are one of the crops to give many vegetable gardeners hope. This is because they can be sown, with protection in the second week of January and as they are a fast growing crop […]
Beans, squash corn matrix
I first heard of the Maize, Squash and Bean poly-culture method of planting whilst at University studying for my degree in Nutrition and Food Science. It was a method of planting used across the […]