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A Guest Post by Cinead McTernan, author of City Veg   In his book An Ear To The Ground: Understanding Your Garden, Ken Thompson, author and botanist, makes the case…

If you’ve placed an order with us for spring plants, or one of our veg patches, or if you’re about to place an order, then this article explains when you…

Here are the newest additions to our organic veg plug plant range for 2022:

Once you’ve got several trusses growing on your tomato plants, you can pinch out the growing tips and prune out some leaves to encourage ripening. This isn’t 100% necessary, but…

Strawberries are very well suited to growing in pots and hanging baskets, and easy to care for too. Choosing a pot/basket: Choose a 20cm wide (approx!) pot or basket, with…

Yes, you can, but we have some advice to help ensure that your wildflowers get well established before the grass takes over…. Cut the grass as short as you can…

We know everybody is keen to get growing as soon as possible in April. Things here are on track for us to start despatching plants from late April onwards, and…

If you are quite new to growing your own you may feel a little overwhelmed when it comes to working out how much to grow – it can be tricky…

If you planted parsley last year, you may see it producing new leaves around about now. It’s worth understanding that in its second year, parsley will set about producing seeds…

With a bit of well-planned planting you can keep your veg plot going strong for longer, with plants that will give you produce well into autumn and winter. This guide…