Sowing & Growing
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 a boy I owned a…
Browsing: Sowing & Growing
Eating & Recipes
Top 10 Money Saving Vegetables to Grow Yourself
Following on from my last blog post about saving money on vegetable seeds, I thought it would be interesting to…
Sowing & Growing
Vegetable Seeds – Which Supplier is Cheapest in 2019?
This time last year I compared vegetable seed prices across the major UK seed retailers. I did this by creating…
Sowing & Growing
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 allotment and started work on…
Eating & Recipes
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 – I started with green…
Sowing & Growing
Easy to Grow Vegetables for a Hard Brexit
I don’t know about you but I became sick of hearing about Brexit three months before we even had a…
Health & Outdoors
Children gardening? They’re not even leaving the house!
‘We need to get more children gardening’ goes the all too common refrain but never mind gardening, it seems that…
Sowing & Growing
Tips for watering outdoor plants – When, Where, How?
I’ve been a bit short on blog writing time of late, between flower show volunteering and work (yes I DO…
Health & Outdoors
The instant boxes aren’t working. Try Gardening #NationalGardeningWeek
When I am in the garden or at my allotments my mind is not somewhere else. My mind is quiet…
Soil & Nutrients
Germination Temperatures: Sowing vegetables in a frozen March
Yes I know you’re anxious to get outside and sow those vegetable seeds, it’s been a long winter and spring…