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What Garden Tools Do I Need to Start a Vegetable Garden?

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...
Sarah Talbot
5 Tomato Growing Issues to Look Out For in a Wet Summer

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...
Sarah Talbot
The 'How and Why' of Attracting more bees to our Vegetable Gardens

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...
Sarah Talbot
A Guide to Garden Weeds (and how to get rid of them!)

A Guide to Garden Weeds (and how to get rid of them!)

Garden Weeds are always a problem but it is easier to tackle the weeding if you know what you are up against.  Check out our guide to some of the...
Sarah Talbot
Your Guide to Lunar Gardening - Planting a Vegetable Garden with Lunar Phases

Your Guide to Lunar Gardening - Planting a Vegetable Garden with Lunar Phases

Lunar gardening, or moon gardening, is an ancient way of growing a vegetable garden that is aligned with the cosmos.  People who folow this gardneign mathod believe that the gravitational pull...
Sarah Talbot
Growing Swiss Chard in the UK: A Gardener's Guide

Growing Swiss Chard in the UK: A Gardener's Guide

Hello today, we are diving into the wonderful world of Swiss chard, a nutritious and versatile leafy green that can be easily grown in the UK. We say 'green' but...
Sarah Talbot
June Planting: Fruits and vegetables to grow in June

June Planting: Fruits and vegetables to grow in June

With both air and soil temperatures climbing higher, June is the good time to sow seeds. Find out what to plant in your vegetable garden in June.
Nicola Wallis
August Edition: Grow your Christmas dinner

August Edition: Grow your Christmas dinner

Daylight hours are long and temperatures high so everything planted so far for Christmas dinner should be coming on quite nicely now. Hopefully you have managed to keep things well...
Nicola Wallis
Pippa Greenwood: What to sow in June in your garden

Pippa Greenwood: What to sow in June in your garden

June is here and both herbs and vegetables are really enjoying the fact that it is feeling like summer may be coming at last. This month I’m excited to be sowing...
Nicola Wallis
June Edition: Grow your Christmas dinner

June Edition: Grow your Christmas dinner

Another month has passed us by, and the worst of the weather and last frost should have, hopefully, been and gone. Temperatures and daylight hours increase this month meaning lots...
Nicola Wallis
August Planting: Fruit and vegetables to grow in August

August Planting: Fruit and vegetables to grow in August

August is still not too late in the year to plant vegetables especially with quick growing crops as the temperature during this period are often perfect for seed germination.  Read...
Nicola Wallis
June Planting: Fruit and vegetables to grow in June

June Planting: Fruit and vegetables to grow in June

What to Plant in June in your Vegetable Garden Don't worry if you haven't started your vegetable garden yet.  There is nothing like a spot of summer gardening. June is the...
Sarah Talbot