I’ve been growing flowers for cutting for some time now. Mainly because they feed the bees, but being able to pick a fresh bunch of flowers every week is an […]
This piece was originally posted on Medium. It’s the first thing I’ve published on the platform and, to be honest, it hasn’t been an overnight success. In fact, it has […]
The short answer is simply that homemade compost is brilliant stuff. It feeds the microbes that build healthy soils, helps improve soil structure and is a great way to recycle […]
There are a lot of flower growers who recommend sowing hardy annuals towards the end of the growing season to produce sturdier plants and earlier flowers the following spring. In […]
Regenerative gardening is a relatively new name for a set of principles that draw from organic and no-dig gardening, permaculture and natural ecosystems. The heart of the idea is based […]
One of my favourite memories from running a school gardening club was the day we harvested the first peas. One of the girls asked me what she was eating… I […]
