How to grow perfectly shaped carrots
If you’ve harvested your carrots lately only to find that they look a bit, well, blobby and mangled, then the answer lies in better soil and better spacing. There’s still…
If you’ve harvested your carrots lately only to find that they look a bit, well, blobby and mangled, then the answer lies in better soil and better spacing. There’s still…
There’s something deeply satisfying about pulling up a crop of onions (or shallots/garlic) and leaving them out in the sun to dry, but it’s an important job to do too…
Are you drowning in courgettes? Are the tomatoes getting on top of you? Lots of people have more veg than they know what to do with at the moment, but…
If you planted garlic from sets back in February/March time you may be wondering when to harvest it. Well, you’ve probably got a few weeks to go, but here are…
If you’re growing your own veggies this winter then this article will give you a good idea of what you can expect to see from your crops over the next…
If you’re growing your own parsnips and leeks or swede/turnip, then you’ll want to be able to harvest them as and when you need them. During the winter, this can…
If you’ve been growing your own veggies to enjoy over Christmas, then you may be getting a little anxious that perhaps your sprouts will get too big or your parsnips…
If you have a few root veg or potatoes still growing in your garden then please read this as some should be pulled up now before the frosts come, but…
Ok, I think harvesting this glorious looking broccoli head might well be my favourite veg achievement for this year. I’ve never grown my own calabrese broccoli before and there was…
Don’t forget to harvest fruit as it ripens this month. There should be loads happening in the fruit garden, from berries and currants to melons and kiwi fruits…. Blackberries should…
Depending when you planted your beetroots, they might be ready to harvest by now. But how can you tell? Well, in most cases the beetroot is fairly visible on the…
As strawberry season hits the UK we thought we’d share this little strawberry secret with you…. you can cleverly grow on new strawberry plants from the runners that you’ll spot…