Crop Rotation – Growing Methods for Gardeners
Crop Rotation – what is it and do you need it in your garden? Let’s begin at the (nearly) beginning and
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Edible Gardens
How to have a Mini Orchard in Your Garden
What a delightful thought – to walk outside on a summer’s morning and pick fresh peaches for your breakfast! But
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Do Geese eat Gooseberries? and other Questions
Do Geese eat Gooseberries? and other questions answered by yours truly. Some will entertain, some will educate, but hopefully will
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Growing Hops in Your Garden
Growing hops in your garden has design tips as well as how to plant your hops. It’s an excellent climber
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What is a Vegan Garden?
The question “What is a Vegan Garden?” is one which I am asked as a Gardening Teacher and sometimes in
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Could You Grow Your Own Coffee?
Is it possible to grow your own Coffee? Well, yes, it is! Even in the UK, if you have a
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Bare Root Fruit Bushes
Gooseberry crumble, blueberries sprinkled over your breakfast granola – bare root fruit bushes are the promise of treats to come!
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Allotments
Allotments are part of British cultural history. Perhaps you have an allotment, small or large. Or perhaps you used to
Oranges and Lemons Fun Facts
“Oranges and Lemons say the bells of St Clements” Or so goes the eighteenth century nursery rhyme. Which at the
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Could You Grow Your Own Christmas Pudding?
Why a blog entitled “Could You Grow Your Own Christmas Pudding”? Well, I thought, if you like growing some of
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Choosing Apple Varieties to Grow in Your Garden or Orchard
Choosing apple varieties involves the pleasurable task of tasting many different apples to discover which ones you like! Whether you’re
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The Garden Pea
This could be subtitled: The Garden Pea – Growing Peas and Garden History. Or The Garden Pea – 9 Facts
Fruit Trees and Small Gardens
Why do some people – including some garden designers – presume without any evidence to the contrary that growing fruit
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How to Grow Oranges and Lemons
How to grow oranges and lemons in the British climate – with and without a greenhouse. Queen Eleanor of Castille
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Pricking out Seedlings
Pricking out seedlings is one of a series of blogs filled with tips on sowing and growing vegetables and flowers
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Shade Tolerant Vegetables
What are shade tolerant vegetables? Faced with a shady garden, many people are put off from growing vegetables as they
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29 Kitchen Garden Ideas for Leap Year
29 Kitchen garden ideas for leap year does not require you to have a 4 acre walled garden. (Although some
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9 Edible Annual Flowers to Grow in Your Garden
9 Edible annual flowers to grow in your garden from seed or from plug plants. Or indeed from seedlings given
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Grow Your Own Thanksgiving Feast
Could you grow your own Thanksgiving feast? Whilst there are ‘how to’ blogs listed at the end, this is more
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Pitmedden Apples
This Pitmedden apples blog is inspired by a visit I made to the gardens in September 2021. It was my
Could You Grow Your Own Broom?
Could you grow your own broom or besom to use in the garden for sweeping up all those autumn leaves
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6 Unusual Vegetables for You to Grow
6 unusual vegetables for you to try out in your kitchen garden, vegetable plot or allotment. Some of them will
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What are Green Manures? Your Kitchen Garden in September
Green manures are a means of improving and protecting the soil over winter by using living plants rather spreading a
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Grow Your Own Pizza Garden
How to grow your own pizza garden – a fun and practical idea to get adults enthused about gardening. Oh
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Successional Sowing, Hardening Off and other Grow Your Own Terms
Successional sowing, hardening off and other gardening confusions. A gardening lesson blog for terms when you begin growing your own
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9 Evergreen Herbs to Edge Your Kitchen Garden or Vegetable Plot
9 evergreen herbs for your kitchen garden or vegetable plot to add a practical and decorative edging, whilst maintain the
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Growing Gooseberries in Your Garden
Growing gooseberries in your garden – a wonderfully alliterative title for a practical gardening blog, don’t you think? Gooseberries are
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Could You Grow Your Own Soap?
Could you grow your own soap? A fun but practical blog to look at which plants and other garden items
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Leeks for St David’s Day, History and Growing Tips
Leeks for St Davids Day – along with daffodils (Narcissus) leeks are one of the national emblems of Wales. And
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Growing Potatoes in Your Garden
Growing potatoes in allotments and gardens is popular. Indeed, along with tomatoes, potatoes are probably one of the first grow your
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What is a Nuttery?
What is a Nuttery? A simple definition would be to call it an orchard where nuts are grown instead of,
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Why Do We Grow Vegetables in Rows?
Why do we grow vegetables in rows? There are practical reasons, but historical ones too. Many of us are now
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