While it’s true that you can harvest and use homegrown onions at any point, regardless of size, if you want to store your onion harvest so that you can still be enjoying your produce months from now, there are a few key steps you need to be aware of. W…
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The Great Pepper Pruning Adventure: navigating the Ups and Downs of Summer Pruning
Pruning is always a scary topic, especially if you are relatively new to gardening so this is your advanced warning that today there is going to be some serious pruning going on. Buckle up because we’re diving headfirst into the wonderful world of summ…
How I deal with aphids in the greenhouse and garden
There are certain topics (or questions) that I can always expect at certain points throughout the year, and May until August is always about aphids or whitefly. usually, it’s how can I get rid of “said pest”. OK here’s the hones…
What you need to know about mulch
Mulch, in the simplest terms, is a layer you add on top of your garden soil. There are lots of benefits to adding mulch to your garden but there are also a few downsides you should be aware of so you can choose what will work best for you. What is mulc…
Self-watering in the greenhouse
We’ve made no secret of how much we love and how successful our current self-watering planters have been over the last 8 years. We have 3 quadgrow units in the greenhouse which we use to grow tomatoes, peppers and aubergines and we’ve even …
Florida Weave: how I’m supporting tall tomato plants in my raised beds
Building a florida weave tomato trellis using bamboo canes and string is easy and cheap and provides amazing support for growing both determinate bush tomatoes and indeterminate cordon tomatoes.
How To Pinch Out Your Dahlia Plants To Force More Flowers
There are a lot of small things you can do which make huge gains in your gardening, pinching out the growing tips on some plants is on of these easy wins. For new gardeners, the idea of pinching or snipping off the top of a plant can be terrifying. Esp…
How to pinch out your dahlia plants to force more flowers
There are a lot of small things you can do which make huge gains in your gardening, pinching out the growing tips on some plants is on of these easy wins.
For new gardeners, the idea of pinching or snipping off the top of a plant can be terrifying. Es…
How to harden off your plants before putting them outdoors
If you have grown plants indoors or using heat and grow lights in order to get a jump start on the season. Then the next step before you transplant them out into your garden is to harden them off. It sounds like a traumatic, complicated thing, but real…
We tried making a planter from an old pallet
There’s no doubt about it, your garden is never big enough. So when you run out of space for flower beds, veg beds, herb beds or collections of containers. Vertical gardening is the next option. The idea of vertical gardening is that you make use of sp…
Don’t let garden jargon get you down
If you ever have a conversation with me about gardening, one of the things you’ll notice is that I don’t use a lot of the “gardening jargon”, and by that, I mean that you will never hear me use Latin names for plants, or talk ab…
Our garden kicks off in April
The early part of the year can be hard for many of us gardeners. We’re itching to get seeds in the ground, the plants transplanted out to the garden and really get going. If you are anything like me, your greenhouse is already bursting with seedlings a…