Sow Broad Beans in November: Autumn & Winter Growing Tips 🌱
If you watched Monty Don on BBC Gardeners' World this November, you may have been reminded that gardening doesn't have to stop when the temperatures drop! Broad beans are one of...
What’s Eating Your Lawn? Leatherjackets and Chafer Grubs Explained
What’s Eating Your Lawn? Leatherjackets and Chafer Grubs Explained Bald patches, loose turf and birds repeatedly pecking at your lawn can all indicate a problem beneath the surface. Two common...
Why Autumn Is Not Too Late to Use Slug Nematodes
Why Autumn Is Not Too Late to Use Slug Nematodes As summer gives way to autumn, it is tempting to think the main gardening season is drawing to a close...
What to Sow in September: Vegetables and Flowers to Grow Now 🌱
What to Sow in September: Vegetables & Flowers to Grow Now 🌱 September is a month of change in the garden. The days are beginning to shorten, mornings feel cooler,...
Organic Gardening Tips for September
Every day the sun is setting earlier and earlier as September is a crossroad month for seasons. At night the temperatures will start to drop, so be ready to start...
What to Sow in August: Vegetables & Flowers to Grow Now 🌱
What to Sow in August: Vegetables & Flowers to Grow Now 🌱 August may feel like the garden is beginning to slow down, especially after the hot and dry summer...
Looking After The Soil Beneath Our Feet
We can all take the soil beneath our feet for granted. Grass and weeds thrive in it, so surely all our flowering plants, shrubs, fruit and vegetables that we want...
Nasturtiums - The perfect organic pest control
Nasturtiums are the perfect organic pest control! Flea and cucumber beetles will be tempted away from squash and cucumber plants. Cabbage white butterflies are attracted to their leaves, and they...
Attract wildlife as natural predators
Chemical free tips to rebalance the eco-systems in your garden. Attract wildlife and watch your garden flourish. Once you’ve stopped using pesticides in your garden, it’s important to attract wildlife...
Organic Gardening Tips for May
May is a month of planting out, so lets hope the frosts stay away so we can! The dry weather looks set to continue, so make sure you keep watering...
Butterflies - provide them with food plants
Chemical free tips to rebalance the eco-systems in your garden. Plant flowers that attract and feed butterflies to increase pollination. Gardens can act as important stepping-stones between nature reserves and other...
Organic Gardening Tips for April
The clocks have sprung fowards and the spell of dry weather continues. The garden is slowly coming back to life, and the peak season for sowing seeds has arrived! Don’t...