Harvest Remaining Brussels Sprouts
If your brussels sprout plants have reached maturity, you may find that even the upper leaves and top cabbage-like leaves are beginning to turn yellow and drop now, perhaps with…
Growing Tips and Advice
Some Top Tips if you’re growing Winter Brassicas
For those that have some kale, broccoli, cabbage or any other brassica plant growing in the veg garden, you might find these top tips quite useful as we hit late…
Which Seed Potatoes Should I Choose? What is a First Early?
For anyone who is a little confused by the different seed potato classifications, here’s an explanation to help clear things up along with some ideas to help you choose what…
Top Tips for Laying Out a Container Garden
It’s very rewarding to transform a small space into an abundant veg garden – you can grow a good amount in just a few pots, and by using a range…
The Next Few Weeks – Mid Jan to Late Feb in the Veg Patch
Late winter tends to be a real mixture of weather across the UK, which makes it difficult to generalise when it comes to getting things done in the vegetable garden…
What’s up with my leeks?
Leeks are not always in tip-top condition when it comes to pulling them up. Here are a few possible scenarios that you may encounter…
Tips & Projects for the Winter Veg Garden
Here are a few helpful ideas that you may want to consider if you’re growing your own this winter, or if you want to get on top of things a…
How to improve your soil
Good soil will give you a better, healthier crop and you’ll suffer less from weeds and pests too. Doing one very simple little thing will make all the difference…add plenty…
Harvesting Winter Veg
If you’re growing winter veggies, like leeks, kale, cabbages, parsnips, sprouts and winter salads, then have a quick read of our guide for some top tips… Brussels Sprouts – if…
December in the Veg Patch
Well, we’ve already had some snow in parts of the UK, and the trees are looking very bare since Storm Bert blew through last week. No doubt there will be…
Algae in greenhouses or tunnels/cloches
You may notice algae growing on the soil in greenhouses or polytunnels, or under any cloche tunnels. This is actually quite common at this time of year when the surface…
Has your cabbage not formed a head?
If you’re growing cabbages at the moment, then hopefully you have some lovely, mature-looking cabbage heads that you can harvest over the next few months. If, however, they look loose…