Love Your Soil, Nurture Your Plants, Grow Organically
The cool spring has continued and we all hope that warmer weather is arriving soon! Greenhouses around the UK will be emptied and window-sills in houses can be cleared of plants as everything can be planted out. Time to harvest rhubarb to make a rhubarb summer pudding! Gardening jobs to do this month: • Water…
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 natural habitats by offering abundant supplies of nectar and food plants for butterflies. In the UK, our gardens cover two million acres of land – that’s 15…
May is a month of planting out, so lets hope the frosts stay away so we can! We need some warm sunshine after what has been a wet and cold spring. Fingers crossed it arrives soon… Jobs to do this month: • Plant out tomatoes in unheated greenhouse • Prick out seedlings as they grow…
Chemical free tips to rebalance the eco-systems in your garden. Pollinators – It’s not just bees who spread the love Pollinators play a vital role in plant reproduction. Without pollinating insects, many of our crops and wild plants wouldn’t survive. Although honey- and bumblebees get a great deal of kudos for pollination, there are actually…
The rain keeps coming and the nights are cold. Don’t rush to plant out young seedlings or Jack Frost might get them! Jobs to do this month: Protect plants from the frost Sow all sorts of seeds in a heated greenhouse or inside on a windowsill: tomatoes, peppers, marrows etc Start hardening off seedlings that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chemical free tips to rebalance the eco-systems in your garden. Install a combination of companion plants and herbs. Companion planting is a time-tested gardening method that enriches and protects vulnerable crops. Planting ‘companion’ plants among other plants can help them to grow by either attracting beneficial insects, repelling pests, or by acting as a sacrificial…
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