Month: March 2024

How To Plant a Year Round Veg Garden

This is a guest post from our friends at Rocket Gardens, a lovely company based in Cornwall that sell Organic Plug Plants for kitchen gardens – they have a wide range of different vegetable plants, herb plants, companions and edible flowers and soft fruit. It is surprisingly straightforward to keep your plot going all year…

Garden Ponds for biodiversity

Chemical free tips to rebalance the eco-systems in your garden.  Garden Ponds: ecological hotspots for biodiversity.  Installing a small pond in your garden can help control garden pests like aphids, provide a valuable home for amphibians, act as a carbon sink and become an ecological hotspot for biodiversity. Follow my son’s lead and add enormous benefits to your…

Benefits of a raised bed and factors to consider

Raised Garden Beds, grow your own, pest control, root rot, warmer soil, drainage

Raised beds offer a practical, fun and efficient way to grow your own vegetables and flowers. If you are planning what you are going to grow in your garden this year, and where you are going to place beds, then there are many reasons why a raised bed is a good idea. From drainage, reducing…

Organic Gardening Tips for March

Spring is almost here. The ground is saturated after all the rain which keeps coming. Time to do lots of preparation and sowing of early crops in the greenhouse or on your windowsills. The warm sun and dry weather is hopefully coming very soon!! Jobs to do this month: • Start off seedlings including annuals…