Create your own simple and eco-friendly seed planting pots! All you need is a pair of scissors, some newspaper and a pot dolly.
Category: Gardening
All things growing and cultivating! Organic, healthy, sustainable.
Top 10 Gift Ideas for Gardeners (Christmas Garden Gift Essentials 2020)
Trying to choose the perfect gift for our gardener friends is not an easy task. Especially for the gardener who seemingly has everything! So I've put together this handy gift guide of useful items that would please any garden or allotment enthusiast! Grab a cup of tea and have a little browse through. Don't forget [...]
Top 5 Tips for Allotment Beginners
Hello and welcome! If you are an allotment newbie, you've just picked up the keys to your first allotment garden and you're wondering where to begin - stick around. In this blog I share my top 5 tips for allotment beginners. I've had an allotment since 2014 and I've learned many skills 'by trowel and [...]
Smallholdings, big dreams…
On my thoughts about how far I've come and what the future holds for me.
The Wildlife Garden
On the additions I have made to my allotment so far this year to make it more wildlife friendly!
The Omlet Eglu Cube – Part I
On delivery, assembly, and first impressions!
Green Johanna – Review
On the many benefits of my new hot composter 'Green Johanna'. If you'd like to know my top secret tip on how to get yours at a fraction of the advertised price, make sure to read to the end!
Allotment Vision 2019
Five points of focus for my 2019 allotment energies!
The Allotment 2019 – The Fruit Garden
On the benefits of growing your own soft fruit and my choice of plants for the new 2019 Fruit Garden.
A Beginner’s Guide to Garlic
One autumn crop I love planting and which I would never willingly be without is garlic. It's embarrassingly easy to grow, takes very little time to plant out, doesn't require much attention and provides the basis for the following year's worth of culinary delights - all for a very modest investment. One thing to note [...]
