Phototoxicity – Beware the plants that burn!
We’ve probably all heard the horror stories about severe skin burns from Giant Hogweed exposure…
Browsing: Sowing & Growing
How to ripen green tomatoes – ethylene borrowing
In an ideal world we’d obviously like our tomatoes to ripen the best way, on…
Should you remove potato flowers and/or their fruits?
Over the years I’ve heard a number of allotment folk say that they remove the…
Lunar Gardening – Should We Pay More Attention to the Moon?
As very young children we are taught to love the man in the moon. As…
Top 10 Money Saving Vegetables to Grow Yourself
Following on from my last blog post about saving money on vegetable seeds, I thought…
Vegetable Seeds – Which Supplier is Cheapest in 2019?
This time last year I compared vegetable seed prices across the major UK seed retailers.…
How to Plant a Hedge in Autumn (an Ashridge Nurseries guide)
Towards the end of last year you may remember that I acquired another half plot…
Round courgettes ‘Tondo di Piacenza’ – a tasty revelation for 2018
Up until this year I had only ever grown traditional long courgettes at the allotment…
Easy to Grow Vegetables for a Hard Brexit
I don’t know about you but I became sick of hearing about Brexit three months…
Children gardening? They’re not even leaving the house!
‘We need to get more children gardening’ goes the all too common refrain but never…