I recently trialed growing sweetcorn in various paper pots. This follow-up video looks at intercropping vegetables by planting squash plants alongside the young sweetcorn plants. I look at how effective the different types of paper pots were at nurturing the Read more…
This is the 2nd of a semi-regular series where I report on the gardening activities I’ve been performing. It will serve as a guide for what you could be doing in the garden now, and hopefully give you some inspiration Read more…
In this video I look at making paper plant pots and testing their effectiveness against the Root Trainers I usually use. I try using the Big Paper Potter from Nether Wallop, as well as using toilet rolls to make paper Read more…
I have an Arlo camera in my garden to watch wildlife from a distance. I regularly have foxes, badgers and more visit my garden both at night and during the day. Here’s a compilation of some of those visitors to Read more…
This is the first of a semi-regular series where I report on the gardening activities I’ve been performing. It will serve as a guide for what you could be doing in the garden now, and hopefully give you some inspiration Read more…
In this short video I cover how I repot some Buddleja Globosa cuttings I took earlier in the year. It’s not a “how to” video but you may find the footage useful. Buddleja Globosa images: Sten, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, Read more…
If you’re wondering how to prune a blueberry bush, I take you through how I prune my blueberries to keep them healthy and get better crops of fruit. I’ll also go through two different approaches for repotting – completely changing Read more…
Find out how I help bees and other pollinators find energy when they’ve just emerged from hibernation in Spring. Find Bumblebee gardening advice at the Bumblebee Conservation Trust: https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/gardeningadvice/ Bumblebee image by Josef Pichler from Pixabay I’ve been asked a Read more…
For this Top Tip I look at how to reuse old t-shirts either around the house for cleaning, or in the garden shed for tool maintenance to help prolong your tools when gardening. There’s really no excuse for throwing away Read more…
In this video, I try a method to start growing peas that makes it easier to transfer them into their final position, which I called drainpipe peas. By using some guttering you can grow a full row of peas, then Read more…