Gardening Tips & Trends

Beginner Beware

Getting started can often be the easy bit, when we are all full of enthusiasum and excited at the thought of growing our own food, beginners beware!! Following on from last weeks topic of getting ...

Beginner Stage.

We all have to be in The Beginner Stage at some point. The university of life has taught me well. With my love of seed raising, I'm constantly wanting to understand where my errors have been and...

New Breed of Cabbage or Not?

Oh the despair of those pesky white butterflies! The emotions they stir in all of us as we visit our patch. 3 days can be a very long time in garden speak one day everything looks rosy and then nex...

The challenges of Summer Gardening

Well finally I make it back to the land of writing and sharing. Already its the middle of February and some days I'm not too sure just what I have to show for it. That said, my garden at home and o...

Hotting It Up For Winter

Since I have been in our gardening business I have developed a love of many new aspects of gardening, I have learnt truck loads and obviously still learning. The main thing I have learnt is to neve...

Have you got Worms?

 I'm sure I have written about worms and their many benefits before but seriously there is just so much to share about these amazing little creatures. I'm a late developer or late lover of worms bu...

How Hydroponics Promotes Sustainable Life

A closer look at hydroponic gardening- a no soil, nutrient and water-based solution method of growing food. Hydroponic gardening is an industry that has been gradually making its way to the innov...

Essential Water - Summer fun and games

Essential Water When I first started writing this, the sky had opened and the rain was falling ... at last. Actually it was so misty outside I couldn't see the top of our hill. After the winter ra...

Water, Food and protection

Healthy Plants This month my son is studying for his year 10 exams and last night we revised his biology together. I'm sure when I was at school we didn't do the detail he has done until at least y...

Labour weekend – time to get growing

There’s something about Labour weekend that always makes me feel it’s time to get growing. After lots of garden composting and seed raising it is a busy time in the outside garden. Plants that have...