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Best foods crops to grow – getting through the Covid-19 lockdown

A guide to growing quick and easy vegetables during the Cov-19 lock-down. Make the most of your ve garden or window box. Also - how to store your vegetables.

Non-Toxic Plants for Baby & Family – What You Need to Know Now

A long list of non-toxic plants to grow in your garden and on your windowsill. Keep your babies and children safe this summer.

Dahlia

Attractive Vegetables That Double as Ornamental Plants

An unusual assortment of great-tasting and nutritious vegetables will also make great additions to the ornamental border as well as the dinner plate!

Grow your own – why bother? [An Exposé]

Improve you health and happiness levels by growing your own vegetables on your allotment plot this year.

Growing mushrooms from 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.

Growing hardy figs in the UK: A Guide to Hardy Varieties & Expert Tips

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.

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.

Three sisters vegetable gardening

An ancient and highly successful way of growing vegetables. The three sisters garden scheme is a balanced and attractive method that everyone must try.

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.

Hay-Fever Reliever – Allergy treatment that actually 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.

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.

Wild edible weeds

We all love to hate the myriad of wild weeds that grow on our allotment plots and in our gardens, stealing valuable nutrients and crowding and smothering our prize vegetables. But did you know that many of these little invaders can in fact be used to line our precious stomachs?