organic vegetable gardening courses, growing tips and homegrown recipes.
Peas need temperatures of at least 10 degrees C to germinate. There are lots of different varieties to try - tall and dwarf, snow peas and sugar snaps (round like a shelling-pea but with tender, edible pods). Here are some tips for success with peas. If you want more help and advice with vegetable garden, come on the fresh food garden course. … [Read more...]
I don't advise gardening in the snow. Tuck up warm and keep your powder dry for the sunny days of Spring. If your pets and other animals have plenty to eat and somewhere sheltered to wait out the blizzard then your work is done. Plan your garden, order your seeds or do some baking. … [Read more...]
Time to prune apples, pears, plums and roses if you haven't already done them. Goosegogs too. It's a beautiful warm day today, just right for those buds to start into life. I've sown some potatoes this week - probably a bit early, but as we don't get much frost, I might get away with it. And even if we get a late one, they'll just get set back a … [Read more...]
If you want to do something differently than you've done it before, you've got to do it in a new way. I think the best way is to get together with a group of like-minded people and learn directly from someone who can show you just a few tweaks that make all the difference. You can't do it from a book, the net or television because that doesn't … [Read more...]
