Potato blight is a nasty fungal disease that can devastate a crop, turning potatoes into black mush unless quick treatment. Control infection organically.
Vegetable gardening
Mildew Resistant Courgettes
Courgette can take a real hammering from powdery mildew. Here are a few resistant varieties and methods for minimising infection.
Vegetables to grow in containers
As our gardens shrink, it’s a good idea to start growing our vegetables in containers. There are many benefits to this method of gardening.
How to grow runner beans
A vegetable plot isn’t complete without runner beans. They are so easy to grow and will yield a fine crop if you follow a few simple steps.
Blight Resistant Tomato – Hanging Baskets
Growing cherry tomatoes in hanging baskets – Losetto is a blight resistant tumbling hybrid tomato which has done well in recent trials.
Growing vegetables in a small garden
Here are some vegetable selections that you might want to try if you want to use the space in your garden sparingly
Growing Mushrooms – Log Dowels – Kits
There are so many dowel kits to choose from – buying exotic mushrooms can be expensive, but it’s easy to grow them from your own back garden in logs.
A climbing courgette for small gardens
What really makes this variety special and lead me to make such a compulsive order is that it is a climbing variety of courgette. Yes, you heard me correctly – a climbing courgette!
Growing Courgettes
A growers guide to courgettes: Courgettes are very easy to grow and will provide you will a good, sustained crop throughout the summer months.
A Guide to Chitting & Growing Potatoes
Chitting, growing and harvesting advice for early, second early and maincrop potatoes.
Guide to Seed Potato Varieties
An allotment or vegetable patch would simply not be complete without a run of potatoes. With so many varieties to choose from, it’s a good idea to do a little research to find the best suited for your garden.
Autumn Onion Sets
Autumn is not too late to plant your early onion sets. From September right through to December, planting now will result a strong overwintered crop in May to July.
Growing vegetables in a small garden
Here are just a few suggestions of varieties of vegetables that you can easily grow in a small garden.
Lettuce Seed Varieties
Growing lettuce couldn’t be easier. Most varieties grow fast from seed, are relatively trouble free and the dark green leaves of lettuce are a good source of beta-carotene and Vitamin A. They are also a good crop to get the children interested in gardening. Here is a selection of lettuce varieties you might want to try.
Tomato Blight – How to prevent
Tomato Blight is becoming increasingly common in the allotment garden, how do we prevent it from effecting our tomatoes and potatoes?
Grow The World’s Hottest Chili From Seed
Now you can grow and harvest the world’s number 1 hottest chili plant – Naga Jolokia from seed. Comes with a caution!
Virus Resistant Courgette Seeds
What can be rewarding than the humble Courgette? Now, it’s even easier to grow, thanks to the virus resistant Courgette Defender F1 hybrid.
Lettuce Mix Seeds
Lettuce Ultimate Mixed seeds contains an exciting range of colours, tastes and textures, both leaf and hearting types, for harvest throughout summer and autumn.
Runner Bean ‘Wisley Magic’ Seeds
Runner Bean ‘Wisley Magic’ seeds won an RHS AGM – voted ‘The Best on Trail’ – producing the heaviest yield of high quality beans and over long picking season.