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;…
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;…
Professional quality, sustainable and RHS-endorsed Melcourt leads the way with this new range of nine professional-quality sustainable products, which are all RHS-endorsed. Here you will find everything from multipurpose compost…
For Kitchens & Gardens Composting is the perfect way to assist the health of your soil and it’s a great way to ensure nothing is wasted. Compost bins have also come…
Organic gardening and organic growing mean to team up and work alongside natural systems and cycles in your garden. In this scenario, there is very little use of manufactured chemical…
How and why we have gone peat-free in 2020! Going Peat Free This year we have worked tirelessly to ensure that all of the plants we grow ourselves are 100%…
Weeding is a marmite job, some gardeners gain great satisfaction from a day spent weeding, others simply hate it. So why is weeding so important? Weeds compete with plants for…
Taking stock of our plot – and oh how it has suffered over the last few months from overmuch wet – I decided to take advantage of my garden upwards…
I don’t know what it has been like this last week in gardens and allotments all over the country, but here we are still feeling the tail of Winter and…
At last, the sun is shining, everywhere in the UK as well as here in the north Cotswolds from where I write this blog post. I walked around d the…
Christmas festivities are over; the New Year approaches – almost a time in limbo, but perfect for making plans, allowing oneself to dream. I write so often about planning that…