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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Grow Your Own
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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Allotments
Allotments are part of British cultural history. Perhaps you have an allotment, small or large. Or perhaps you used to
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Easy Maintenance Edible Gardens
Easy maintenance edible gardens – many people consider that to be a contradiction in terms, but it doesn’t have to
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Growing New Potatoes for Christmas Dinner
Growing new potatoes during the autumn – a novel idea to you? How do you fancy eating new potatoes for
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9 Winter Vegetable Garden Tasks to be Doing Now
Why only 9 Winter Vegetable Garden Tasks to be doing now when there are obviously many more? Because you don’t
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How to Grow Vegan Herbs
Why vegan herbs specifically? Because I felt that there was a bit of a gap between the buying vegan and
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The Allotment – A Pictorial Tour
This Allotment blog is a predominantly pictorial whiz through the seasons of the year and different countries in celebration of
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What is an Ornamental Edible Garden?
What is an Ornamental Edible Garden? As I sit here looking out at my own ornamental edible garden in the
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National Allotments Week 2018 – Living and Growing
National Allotments Week 2018 takes place from August 13 – 19. So what, you may think, I don’t have an
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Three Sisters History of a Cultivation Method
This Three Sisters history could be a blog related to the National Sibling Day which is held in some of
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What is a Vegetable Garden and Why Would You Want One?
Vegetable garden, vegetable plot, vegetable patch. Which is the correct term? Does it matter? Will you be thought pretentious if you call
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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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Garden Visits – Kitchen Gardens
Garden visits kitchen gardens is a largely pictorial blog. Visiting kitchen gardens, both famous and less well known, is both part
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Edible Weeds
Edible weeds? Well, it could be considered one form of organic weed control! A Weed is a Plant in the
Edible flowers – Eating your Flower Garden
I’ve recently been making quince preserve (see below for quince blog link) and one of the ingredients I added was rose
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Edible Gardens Ornamental food
Edible Gardens Ornamental Food – What is this about? You may well ask! Read on and find out… I haven’t
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Allotments and Allotment Gardens
There are many allotments and allotment gardens under attack from councils and developers who want to build houses, shops, offices
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Rhubarb – Growing Your Own Rhubarb Triangle
The Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle is nothing to do with geometry and everything to do with tasty fruit … or vegetables…
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