What Garden Tools Do I Need to Start a Vegetable Garden?
Here are the basic garden tools that you need to start your own vegetable garden. We have taken 5 of the most popular vegetables grown in UK gardens and outlined...
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5 Tomato Growing Issues to Look Out For in a Wet Summer
Growing tomatoes can be one of the most rewarding experiences in the garden, but a wet summer can play havoc with a successful tomato crop. Discover the problems you could...
Sustainable watering: How to Conserve Water in the Vegetable Garden
Here is your road map to dealing with a hose pipe ban. Discover how to water your vegetable garden in a sustainable way. To conserve water but still grow amazing...
How to Grow Green Manure For Better Soil
Gren manure are crops that you sow in order to enrich the soil and prevent soil erosion. So, they grow and then rather than harvesting, you dig them back into the...
The 'How and Why' of Attracting more bees to our Vegetable Gardens
Bees are essential pollinators, responsible for about one-third of the food we eat. Unfortunately, bee populations are declining due to habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change. Discover how and why...
Is the 'No Dig' method of gardening right for me?
What is No Dig? Put simply ‘No dig’ is exactly that - a means of gardening without digging over the plot each year. It is a a gardening method that...
5 common Tomato Growing Mistakes (and how to avoid them!)
Tomato plants are often one of the first plants you try as a child. But despite a lifetime of growing them its easy to make some of these tomato growing...
9 Companion Plants to Grow with Cucumber Plants (and 3 to AVOID!)
Companion Planting is key to successfully growing cucumber plants from seed. In our latest blog you can discover 9 plants to plant alongside your cucumbers and 3 you should avoid.
How to make a wildlife pond whatever your garden size
You might not think you have the space for a garden pond but don't worry. If you are short of space then you can even make a wildlife pond in...
5 Top Tips For Garden Companion Planting
Companion planting is where two or more crops are grown together for the benefit of one, or all. It is a must for organic gardeners or anyone who wants to...
6 Ways to solve your Carrot growing problems
Carrots are one of the most popular vegetable but they aren’t always easy to grow. Your first hurdle is the dreaded carrot fly. Its unusual to have to think of...
5 Easy Ways to protect your plants from frost
Plant protection is important in winter but there are other things you can do to help reduce the impact of frost in the garden.