There’s nothing like empty supermarket shelves for making you feel like growing your own vegetables, so if you’ve suddenly decided it’s a good idea here’s a shortlist of some of the most […]
Rain, rain go away – the problems with saturated soil
When I originally wrote that this was going to be a warts and all vegetable growing blog I hadn’t thought about the problems of flooding, but that’s what many people are dealing […]
Sowing seeds directly into the soil – the thick and the thin of it
If you’re sowing seeds direct in the soil, should you sow them carefully and thinly or throw caution to the winds and chuck loads in? I’ve talked quite a bit in my […]
Sowing vegetable seeds Direct sowing or sowing under cover: which is better?
If you’ve got an allotment or vegetable patch and you’re going to grow most of your crops from seed (see my previous post for ideas on how to get plants if this […]
Vegetable plants – how to get what you need if you don’t have a lot of space or time for seed sowing.
One of the main attractions for me of growing my own vegetables is in starting as much as possible from seed. In the long, narrow garden of my end-of-terrace house (roughly 30 […]
Tips you need to combat the scourge of weeds
‘A weed is a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.’ Some people say that a weed is just a plant growing where you don’t […]
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