My Best Crop of Carrots?
Artistic Lawn Design The landscaping design will include the house architecture, the lawn, fencing and borders, and flower or vegetable gardens, Strong influences in the design will be determined by…
Ebb and Flow of Soil Fertility in the Polytunnel Garden
A Rock Garden Great for Low Maintenance Landscaping One of the easiest and maybe the cheapest ways to enhance the landscape around your home is to build a rock garden….
Seed Potatoes 101: How To Prepare Potatoes For Planting!
Say Goodbye to Traditional Gardening Are you having problems with infestation? Do you always end up with back pains after a day of tending your vegetable garden? Are you earning…
Dealing With Rats in the Compost (warning – images of living and dead rats/animals)
Popular Bulbs and How to Plant Them From early snowdrops to showy dahlias, many of our favourite garden flowers are bulbs. Here is a short guide to some of our…
Intensive Garden Introduction
Fast Growing Vegetables for a Spring Garden Growing your own food is both fun and profitable, so the sooner you get into it the better. There are a number of…
Polytunnel Garden Introduction
Tips to Identify and Improve Clay Soils Low quality soils can be frustrating and difficult to plant in, and clay is one of the worst. Though it’s not hard to…
Growing Potatoes to Feed the Soil
November in the Vegetable Garden November in the vegetable garden and winter is beginning to take hold. Beds that were filled with late season produce are now laid bare, stems…
The Black Plot
Permaculture – What Is It? A brief overview of what permaculture is, and where to find out more about it. Includes the 12 design principles of Permaculture. Planting Season Begins…
6 Vegetable Gardens
Grow Healthy Food Such As Fish and Vegetables Using Aquaponics Many of use consider growing vegetables in our backyard a process that uses soil and an abundance of water. This…