Growing your own fruit is becoming increasingly popular and you really don't need a great deal of space in the garden to do so. Regardless of the number of trees, varieties or types of rootstock …
Grow Blight Resistant Potatoes
The Potato Council, have recently accused ‘grow your own’ gardeners of spreading the fungal blight which has devastated potato crops across the UK. However, many gardeners are already growing …
Hackney Veg Patch
When growing veg, it is important to plan ahead very carefully to gain the best out of your plot and to maintain crop rotation. On our searches around the web we found this wonderful site " Our …
Vegetable plug plants
Growing your veg from plug plants can have many benefits and over the last couple of years, the range offered has increased greatly. One of the hardest parts of growing your own is the tricky seed …
Potato grow kits and bags
Potato grow sacks are ideal if you have limited space in the garden and don't want to take on an allotment, or if you simply want to grow a few spuds for fun. Specially designed polyproylene bags …
Patio Potatoes
One of our readers experimented this year by growing potatoes in a tub on the patio. At the end of August, after the stalks had died back, he emptied out about 8Kg of tubers. Earlier in …