Where did all the Nitrogen go? – Part 2 of the Potato Grow Bag Trials

Where did all the Nitrogen go? – Part 2 of the Potato Grow Bag Trials

Herb Garden Herbs For the Cook Herb garden herbs can make up an entire lovely garden for show and in use in your home. The herbs most used by cooks…

Improving Mediocre Compost - Part 1 of the Potato Grow Bag Trials

Improving Mediocre Compost – Part 1 of the Potato Grow Bag Trials

Micro Farming For Your Survival Garden Currently, with the exorbitant increase of food prices, many people are literally taking this problem into their own hands. People are growing survival gardens…

Size Matters

Size Matters

How to Design a Garden – Plotting it on Paper There are many computerized design tools available today. To the technologically savvy gardener, these tools are a blessing. Those who…

A Better Way to Support Beans

A Better Way to Support Beans

Temperature Requirements of Softwood Cuttings – Part 1 of 4 This is part 1 of a 4 part series on the temperature requirements of softwood cuttings while being rooted under…

15 Bush Bean Varieties

15 Bush Bean Varieties

Rose Gardens For the Beginning Gardener For the beginning gardener, roses often seem too hard to tackle, but that just isn’t true. If you want a rose garden, I suggest…

Creating Space For Brassicas

Creating Space For Brassicas

Garden Hedges – Understanding The Basics A garden hedge is quite simply a row of shrubs, spaced closely together so that they form a solid mass. Whether you clip them…

I Gave In And Bought Compost

I Gave In And Bought Compost

Improving the Topsoil in Your Garden When you start gardening a new patch of soil, whether it be a new allotment or a new garden, it’s always interesting. What will…

7 Ways to Deal With Slugs

7 Ways to Deal With Slugs

A Quick Guide to Compost If you Google the word compost, you will find an amazing variety of composts are available. So how do you know which compost to choose,…

Huge Spring Harvests from the Polytunnel Garden

Huge Spring Harvests from the Polytunnel Garden

The Right Garden Shed For Your Weather? Do you have the right garden shed for your garden? This may seem a simple question after all is a garden shed not…

Why I Stopped Saving Seeds ... but plan to start again

Why I Stopped Saving Seeds … but plan to start again

To Gravel or to Grass – Better Hurry As the Summer Is Almost Here To plant grass in your garden or not to – that is the question. It seems…