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.
Tag: Healthy Gardener
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.
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
Poisonous Garden Plants
Protect your children from harm in the garden with this list of poisonous garden plants.
Three Sisters Vegetable Gardening
We have all heard by now of the benefits of good companion planting and the result that can be achieved from using a harmonious, inter-cropping system. The correct kind of companion planting may yield a stronger, healthier crop as well reduce labour, as some plants can be used to suppress weeds or even improve soil quality. Introducing the Three Sisters!
Vegetable seeds to sow in June
June offers plenty of opportunities to fill those empty spots down on the allotment. Here is a list of vegetable seeds to sow during June.
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.
Potash for healthy growth
The importance of Potash in plant growth in your garden. Encourage larger, more colourful flowers and healthier and tastier fruit!
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.
Allergy & Hay-fever Reliever that really works!
For my entire life I have suffered with hay-fever. I have tried everything. Now, for the first time in my life, have a summer free from sneezes. Red light therapy, Allergy Reliever review.
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.
Goji Berry Plants
The Goji Berry (of the solanaceous family) has made quite a splash in the news of late, being described as a ‘Super Food’.
Sleeping problems – natural remedies
For those of us unlucky enough to suffer from broken sleep, we will think nothing of popping down to the local chemist for a chemical remedy. Well, there is a great natural remedy that any of us can try and produce for free.