This is the 4th of a semi-regular series where I report on the gardening activities I’ve been performing. In today’s episode I use the bulb lasagne technique to plant my tulip bulbs. I pot up some strawberry runners to grow Read more…
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We went looking for plastic free compost options and found the Bag For Life scheme run by Edible Culture for Melcourt Compost. Find out more about Edible Culture from Faversham, Kent, and how their Bag For Life scheme was so Read more…
This is the 3rd 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…
We try growing onions and shallots at home from sets. We take you through how we spaced and sowed the onion sets, through to weeding them, harvesting the shallots and onions, drying them and then storing them by tying into Read more…
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…