• Article Soil Block Recipe Soil Blockers have been around for many years, but their popularity is spreading fast, largely by word of mouth. Using this Soil Block recipe and Soil blockers will eliminate...
• Article How to Choose a Tomato It is thought that there are over three thousand heirloom tomatoes in cultivation, from the very well known Black Krim to the rather more obscure Sibirskiy Skorospely (Early...
• Article Mulch A layer of material placed over the ground, for the purposes of feeding the soil, conserving moisture, stopping weeds germinating, keeping the soil warm or protecting from heavy...
• Article What Seeds To Use For Succession Planting It’s that exciting time of year when we’re starting to see our gardens explode with activity and growth! This means we’ll soon be pulling delicious and bountiful harvests...
• Article Attract the Pest Control Team to Your Garden Attracting predatorial insects to our garden using flowers is an effective pest management strategy. Flying insects such as wasps, hover flies and lady beetles find nectar and pollen...
• Article How to Grow Potatoes Potatoes are important to the self-sufficient gardener and the gourmet gardener. Easy to grow, highly nutritious and there is a variety for every use in the kitchen. Kids...
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• Article Aphids Known as greenflies in the UK, there are over 5,000 species of aphids worldwide. Fewer than 10% of known species are agricultural pests, but they are a genuine...
• Article Beetle Bank Blend Wildflowers Ingredients The ingredients in our Beetle Bank Blend Wildflowers combine to attract beneficial insects and provide them with habitat in which to shelter and reproduce. This forms a natural...
• Article How to Grow Tomatoes Summer-ripened tomatoes are a good source of vitamin C and beta-carotene. The lycopene in the tomatoes is an anti-oxidant, but is only released when the tomatoes are cooked....
• Article Biodiversity Blend Wildflowers Ingredients The Biodiversity Blend provides the widest, most diverse combination of flower types in any of our wildflower blends. There are flowers to tempt every sort of pollinator, but...
• Article Carrot Rust Fly The Carrot Rust Fly [CRF] is a weak flying insect pest that feeds its young on 107 different plants in the carrot family, including carrots, celery, parsnips, celeriac,...
• Article About Radishes About Radishes (Raphanus sativus) The genus name for this vegetable, Raphanus, comes from the Greek for “quickly appearing,” and it’s wholly appropriate. Radish seeds can germinate in as...
• Article How to Grow Melons In the home garden, melons can be picked at full maturity, when they have the highest sugar content and best flavour. Their roots are delicate and require high...
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• Article How to Grow Celery and Celeriac Celery is a refreshing treat from the garden, and particularly flavourful when fresh. Celeriac is a variety of celery that is grown for its root, which can be...
• Article Predatory Nematodes Predatory nematodes can be applied in the late spring or early summer to combat chafer beetles, wireworm, and other soil dwelling beetle larvae. Predatory nematodes are effective against...
• Article About Celery & Celeriac Celery (Apium graveolens var. dulce) & Celeriac (A. graveolens var. rapaceum) The Latin names for the different types of celery are revealing. In both cases, graveolens means “strong...
• Article Twelve Must-Have Seeds for 2017 One of the best things about working with seeds is the time we spend in seed trials, trying new varieties and comparing traits. We are completely spoiled by...
• Article About Kale and Collards Collards (Brassica oleracea Acephala group) Kale (Brassica oleracea Acephala group) Russian or Napa Kale (Brassica rapus ssp. pabularia syn. B. napus) Learn about kale and collards here. As...
• Article Raised Garden Beds Building raised beds for your vegetable (or herb, or flower) garden requires an investment of work plus the cost of materials, but they will reward you in the...
• Article Mark's Top Squash Picks The first two weeks of May is the ideal time window for starting squash seeds (including zucchini and pumpkin) indoors. By starting the seeds indoors, there is less...
• Article Do Ants Farm Aphids? We hear so much about ants farming aphids that we thought we should answer the question, “Do ants farm aphids?” It’s natural for human beings to try to...
• Article About Cabbage Known since ancient Greece and Rome, the modern cabbage is a descendant of wild mustard. The Roman statesman Cato the Elder wrote of its medicinal properties, “It is...
• Article About Tomatoes There are some very interesting facts about tomatoes. No one can say for certain, but the ancestor of all modern tomato varieties appears to have been a scrambling...
• Article Raised Garden Beds Building raised beds for your vegetable (or herb, or flower) garden requires an investment of work plus the cost of materials, but they will reward you in the...
• Article All About Garlic Garlic has been used as both food and medicine since at least the 25th century BCE, around the time that the pyramids were being constructed at Giza, Egypt....
• Article About Melons About Melons: Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) & Muskmelon (Cucumis melo) Melons picked fresh from the vine are unbelievably sweet and, like so many other kinds of garden produce, are...
• Article About Beets Beets, like many root vegetables are biennials, which, if not harvested, will bloom in the second year of growth. One of the interesting facts about beets is they...
• Article All About Sunflowers We’re going to tell you all about sunflowers so you can be a sunflower expert. Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) It is thought that sunflowers may have been domesticated before...
• Article About Parsley Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) Both the curly leaf form (P. crispum) and the Italian flat-leaf form (P. crispum var. neapolitanum) of this useful herb are members of the carrot...
• Article About Peppers About Peppers (Capsicum sp.) Peppers appear to have played a role in the diet (and cultures) of the Americas since as early as 7500 BCE, and have been...
• Article Sweet Pea Trial Not so much an official trial, as an effort to grow out each of our sweet peas for comparative study. We grew out fifteen varieties among the other...