How to make your own compost – and why we all should
As any gardener will tell you, the compost heap is the beating heart of a garden. The cherished ‘black gold’ is essential for the health of your garden and plants;…
June on the Allotment Garden
By Richard Chivers The weather has just been glorious over the last few weeks. I can’t remember the last time I’ve worn shorts as often!
March on the Allotment Garden
By Richard Chivers For gardeners, the arrival of March arouses a sensation others savour only at Christmas. Winter is always a long season for us allotmenteers. Dark, cold and when…
Top Winter Vegetables: Best Hardy Varieties to Grow
Many of us grow an abundance of wonderful crops for harvesting over summer and autumn. In the meantime, winter vegetables are too often overlooked! However, there is no reason you…
April on the Allotment Garden
By Richard Chivers Snow dominated March. And although it feels like we’ve lost an entire chunk of the gardening season, we really haven’t. It’s not too late and in some…
Dobies Group Scheme Offers Discounts
Dobies Group Scheme offers generous discounts to allotment groups, garden clubs and societies Members of amateur gardening clubs can benefit from the generous discounts offered by the Dobies Group Scheme. And…
Gardening Groups & Societies
Gardening remains a highly popular hobby across the UK. No matter how much or how little space people have they enjoy creating and maintaining their patch, be it several acres…
Inspiration is all around you ..
All too often you slave away in the garden or allotment and feel that the ongoing chores are endless – digging, weeding, sowing, thinning, protecting from predators, and of course…
May Miscellany continued
I am writing this post just one day after the one I posted yesterday, on Sunday 26th May. Only because I am taking a holiday which for me is unusual…
Snow? A good time to plan
Snow over much of the country seems to be more prevalent this winter than in I remember in the past – in the 1980s I think when we hardly had…