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Growing Kale.
Kale or borcole [ Brassica oleracea ] is a versatile member of the cabbage family. It comes in a wide range of leaf shapes and colours, it is a very attractive and hardy vegetable that looks just as...
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Asparagus – grow from crowns or seed?
Many people don’t know what they are missing when it comes to home grown Asparagus… (Boiled for 10 minutes, drained and butter splurged over them and a bit of salt sprinkled) Absolutely...
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Growing Your Own Potatoes
I’m going into plot or ground grown Potatoes and Helen has done a separate one here about growing in containers. Home grown spuds always taste better than bought ones and you have a far greater...
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Growing and Propagating Strawberries
The snow is upon us, which has prompted me to write this article. Many gardeners are worried that their Strawberries will die in the snow – Rest assured they WILL survive. They love the cold and snow...
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Growing Onions –“Non Conventional” way
This year I decided to grow all my onions from seed instead of from sets. I have grown enough to be self sufficient (or almost) for many years now, starting way back when I was growing them on my flat...
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Using Weed-Suppressant fabric to grow crops through
This year I have decided to grow a lot of veg through weed suppressant fabric. For a few reasons…. mainly due to running two home based businesses I don’t have a lot of time to dig weeds at the plot...
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Itchy Fingers – I wish Spring would hurry up!!
I’m itching to get going this year and get things planted out… But I still have to finish preparing the plot as with the strange conditions I’ve not had a chance to get stuck in and get all the digging...
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Easter Sunday on the plot
I had a great Easter Sunday at the plot … It was the first time for quite a while that I could spend the a day there due to the incumbent weather we’ve been having. So I woke up early…. ‘ish… and made...
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Spring is FINALLY here!
As the evenings are getting longer, we’ve been lucky enough to spend a couple of evenings after work down on the plot. And what’s made it even better is that the sun has been shining! This means we...
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Getting my onions planted
Finally got some onions planted last weekend..With the freezing cold winter weather being with us for so long I planted a packet of onion sets in modules to get them going in the greenhouse. I normally...
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How I grew over half a tonne of Veg on my allotment in 2013.. (Super-Blog...
Wow – I was quite astounded when I added the quantities of veg that I grew on my allotment last season.. I grew 588 kg. on 165 sq. mt. My Harvest 2013 After seeing the price of runner beans in town I...
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How I grew over half a tonne of Veg on my allotment in 2013.. (Super-Blog...
So to continue… Spring Onions… As I said in the part 1 we love our onions. As well as the normal onions I also have a small bed of multiplying onions – like a spring onion but a bit smaller. I...
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Mmmm new Project – DIY Light Grow Box…
So….. I was sitting at the Christmas dinner table (on boxing day) with the family and suddenly decided I need a grow box to play with for growing some show onions, a few peppers and chilies.. Bright...
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DIY Greenhouse rainwater collector kit..
Just a quick evening blog…. I searched for Greenhouse rainwater collector kits on Ebay today for my home GH to collect nutritious rain water for my seedlings. I found some for £18 a pair… Now I don’t...
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The new season has truly begun…
I’ve not been doing much on the blog side lately so here goes with some info on the last few months activities. I planted my garlic as normal in September in modules in the greenhouse but they were...
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