Composting 101: Turn Kitchen Scraps into Nutrient-Rich Garden Soil
Composting is nature’s ultimate recycling hack, turning everyday kitchen scraps into nutrient-rich garden soil that supercharges plant growth. Become an expert!
Companion Planting for Pest Control: A Gardener’s Guide to Natural Solutions
Discover how companion planting for pest control can protect your UK garden naturally. Learn which plants repel pests, deter rats, and boost vegetable growth in this eco-friendly guide.
Perennial Vegetables: The Ultimate Low-Maintenance Garden for Year-Round Abundance
Imagine planting a vegetable once and reaping its bounty year after year—no replanting, no tilling, and minimal maintenance. Welcome to the world of perennial vegetables!
Veg Gardening Made Easy – A Beginner Guide to Growing Your Own Food!
The ultimate guide for beginner vegetable gardeners in the UK. Learn how to plan, plant, and care for your first veggie plot for a successful harvest with tips tailored to the British climate.
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Grow your own – why bother? [An Exposé]
Improve you health and happiness levels by growing your own vegetables on your allotment plot this year.
Potato Blight: Organic control methods
Organic methods for avoiding the dreaded potato blight which will turn your potatoes into a black mush unless quick treatment.
Mildew resistant Courgettes varieties
Courgette can take a real hammering from powdery mildew. Here are a few resistant varieties and methods for minimising infection.
Growing Runner Beans – Growing in Pots, Harvesting & More!
An organic guide for growing runner beans in any size garden. How to get the most out of your crop and recommended bean varieties.
A guide to vegetables for 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
Best Polycarbonate Greenhouse: Waltons | My Review
Review of an excellent and affordable polycarbonate greenhouse from Waltons. Best Price!
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
A complete guide to chitting & growing potatoes and getting the most out of your crop
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.
Hedge & hedging plants – information for allotments
Hedges, Fences and walls can all serve similar purposes – marking and maintaining boundaries, keeping children or pets contained or to provide a greater sense of privacy. It is fair to say we are a little biased! But here are some good reasons for choosing a hedge.Hedges have greater ‘kerbside appeal’ offering beauty and interest in all seasons while softening the lines of buildings making houses look more in keeping with their gardens.
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.