Growing Spinach: Step by Step
Spinach is a cool-season crop, more versatile than most because it can be served cooked or raw, and can be picked very young for gourmet greens or allowed to mature. Continue Reading
Why you should be fertilizing your organic garden
When you’re out and about working in your garden, do any of these questions enter your mind? How can I grow more healthy vegetable plants? Should I fertilize my garden Continue Reading
Green Manure Phacelia tanacetifolia – a perfect pollinator plant
Green Manures Green manures are ‘crops’ which are sown to cover bare soil and do a number of jobs depending on the species like protecting soil, storing nitrogen or mining Continue Reading
4 Ways to Green Up Your Gift Wrapping
<!– –> It’s the season of gifting and giving! As gardeners, we like to reflect our love of natural things in the gifts we share. But what about the gift Continue Reading
Protect Your Favorite Plants with Trap Crops
If you are trying to go pesticide-free in the garden, consider a version of companion planting that actually has one plant “sacrifice” itself for its more valuable neighbor. These heroic Continue Reading
The Fabulous Solitary Bee
I don’t know whether you know this already but of the 267 species of bee in the U.K. and Ireland, 90% of them are solitary bees. Solitary bees don’t produce Continue Reading
Reasons Why the Jackfruit Is Super Healthy
Typically the jackfruit needs a humid and hot climate to grow and cannot be grown in countries with colder temperatures. In appearance, it is thorny on the outside and fleshy Continue Reading
Most Filling Vegetables
First, the great thing about eating tons of vegetables is you really can eat tons of vegetables. Okay, I’m exaggerating, but you should get used to the fact that servings of veggies Continue Reading
Your Beans’ Best Friends
Useful in the garden from root to tip, beans like this elegant Romano are a must-have! Good old beans! As a legume, they are one of the stars of the Continue Reading
Tomato Growing Tips – Ripening and improving the flavour of tomatoes
We build a relationship with tomatoes unlike almost any other plant in our vegetable garden as they need such constant and varying care. We start off seeds when it is Continue Reading