Growing cherry tomatoes in hanging baskets – Losetto is a blight resistant tumbling hybrid tomato which has done well in recent trials.
Tag: Growing Fruit
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.
UK Hardy Figs
Here in the UK, Fig trees can survive temperatures as low as -10C, produce bountiful crops of highly nutritious fruit and look great as a focal point in any sized garden.
Blueberry Top Hat Plants
Blueberries grow best in an acid soil. If you don’t have acid soil, simply plant them in patio containers in ericaceous compost. Featuring Blueberry Top Hat.
The ever popular – Strawberry ‘Sonata’
A high quality, mid-season variety of strawberry producing uniform shaped fruits in abundance from June-July. The fruits of Strawberry ‘Sonata’ are deliciously sweet and juicy.
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.
Honeyberry – Hardy & Delicious
Want to grow something completely different this year? Hardy Honeyberries, native to Siberia, taste like blueberries and have a sweet, honey-like aftertaste. High in antioxidants
Pruning Fruit Trees
Fruit laden trees are a welcome sight in any garden. Pruning your fruit tree is one sure way to keep it healthy, looking great and producing an excellent yeild, year after year.
Potash for healthy growth
The importance of Potash in plant growth in your garden. Encourage larger, more colourful flowers and healthier and tastier fruit!
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?
Soft Fruits – Autumn Planting
Autumn is a great time to plant soft fruits to get earlier crops for the next year or two. Here are a few suggestions of varieties to try, even if you are limited on space.
Growing a fig tree in the UK
For the past five years, I have been caring for a wonderful fig tree (Brown Turkey) in my south-westerly facing courtyard garden in a 12inch pot.
Fruit Cages
I saw fruit cages on an episode of Gardeners World and decided it would be the perfect solution for my plot.