Grow At Home
December Edition: Grow your Christmas dinner vegetables
Time to Harvest your Christmas Dinner Vegetables Harvest your leeks a week or so before Christmas by lifting gently with a fork, either as pencil thin baby leeks or as...
How to Grow Komatsuna or Mustard Spinach
Have you heard of komatsuna? Sometimes known as mustard spinach or Japanese mustard spinach, it is a very hardy leafy winter green. If you are a fan of oriental brassicas...
October & November Edition: Grow your Christmas dinner vegetables
Time to chack on your Christmas Dinner vegetables. October Gardening Jobs Stake Brussels sprouts as they can become top-heavy. Drive a sturdy stake into the ground and tie each plant...
The best way to grow Endive
How to Grow Endive Endive is a really great ingredient to be used for salads or as greens. It comes in two types. An upright Batavian or escarole with larger...
December Planting: Fruit and vegetables to plant in December
Even in the depth of winter it is possible to keep growing and sowing. December is a surprisingly good time to plant vegetables both outside and in. Sowing in...
Pippa Greenwood: What to Plant in March
Renowned gardening expert Pippa Greenwood leads you through the planting season. She shares what she is planting in her garden each month plus some insider gardening tips to help you...
Pippa Greenwood what to plant in February
Renowned gardening expert Pippa Greenwood leads you through the planting season month by month. She shares what she is planting in her garden each month and shares some insider gardening...
Pippa Greenwood what to plant in January
This is the first of a series of monthly planting blogs that I will be producing over the year. So, if you want to get growing all year long then...
December Garden Checklist: what to do in the garden in December
Gardening through winter can seem like a daunting prospect but any sunny days can be great opportunities to catch up on jobs in the garden. We have put together an...
Bonfires and the law: what are the rules?
Its that time of year when the garden needs a good tidy. The leaves are beginning to fall from the trees. Plus most summer vegetable have been harvested and its...
Get your Garden Winter Ready - 5 Ways to Protect your Soil
So, your harvest is in and your gardening is done for the year. You are ready to sit back and relax until it all starts again in Spring. But hold...
Beginners Guide to growing Cherry Trees
Cherry trees are arguably the prettiest of spring blossom trees. There are around a thousand varieties of cherry tree - five hundred Sweet Cherries and five hundred Sour Cherries (also...