The Secret Life of Soil: Are You Helping or Hurting Your Soil? PART 3
In our first two articles, we discovered the incredible world living beneath our feet and how bacteria, fungi, earthworms and plant roots work together to support our vegetables. Today, I want to bring all of that back into our own gardens. Because here’s...
The Secret Life of Soil: Who’s Feeding Your Vegetables? PART 2
In our previous article, we spoke about the incredible world of bacteria, fungi, earthworms and other tiny organisms living beneath our feet. But have you ever wondered how all this underground life actually helps feed your vegetables? We spend so much time thinking...
The Secret Life of Soil – You Won’t Believe What’s Happening Beneath Your Feet! PART 1
There’s a whole world beneath your feet! When we look at our vegetable gardens, we see the tomatoes growing, the lettuce pushing out new leaves and perhaps a few carrots starting to show their shoulders above the ground. But have you ever stopped to think about...
What Is Your Fruit Trying to Tell You?
What Is Your Fruit Trying to Tell You? This week, we’ve been listening to our vegetable plants! First, we looked at what the leaves are telling us, then we moved on to the flowers, and today we’re looking at the part we’ve all been patiently waiting...
What Are Your Flowers Trying to Tell You?
What Are Your Flowers Trying to Tell You? On Monday we chatted about what your leaves are telling you. Yellow leaves, curled leaves and spots can give you some very good clues about what is happening with a plant. But leaves aren’t the only ones talking. At this...
What Is Your Veggie Garden Trying to Tell You? Part 1
What Is Your Veggie Garden Trying to Tell You? Part 1: Read the Leaves One thing I do almost every morning is walk through the veggie garden. Sometimes with coffee in hand, sometimes while I’m actually supposed to be doing something completely different, but I always...
Can Growing Your Own Veggies Really Save You Money?
Can You Really Save Money by Growing Your Own Vegetables? One of the questions I get asked quite often is whether growing your own vegetables actually saves you money. And I think it is a very fair question, because if you walk into a nursery today and start adding...
What NOT to Plant in October
October is one of those months when the veggie garden suddenly feels as though everything should be planted. The days are longer, the soil is warming up, seedlings are everywhere in the nurseries, and summer is just around the corner. But just because you can find a...
Raised Beds, In-Ground or Containers: Where Should You Grow Your Veggies?
Raised Beds, In the Ground or Containers – Where Should You Grow? When people decide they want to start growing vegetables, one of the first questions is usually: Where am I actually going to grow them? Do I need raised beds? Can I simply plant into the soil I already...
Milk & Bicarb for Powdery Mildew — Does It Really Work?
Garden myth: Milk or baking soda for powdery mildew? Every growing season it happens in my garden too. Everything is growing beautifully and then one morning I walk past the cucumbers, pumpkins or courgettes and spot it… That first little white powdery patch on a...
Pests Are Back! 5 Natural Ways I Protect My Veggie Garden
My top 5 natural pest control hacks for the new growing season A new growing season means new seedlings, loads of growth and hopefully plenty of food coming from the garden. Unfortunately, it also means the pests are back! Over the years I have learned that pest...
Those first flowers: leave them or pinch them off?
Should you remove the first flowers from young vegetable plants? You bring home a beautiful little tomato, pepper or aubergine seedling from the nursery and notice something exciting: It already has flowers! Surely that’s a good thing? Flowers mean fruit is...
What Are These Knots on My Roots? Let’s Talk Nematodes
Nematodes in the veggie garden – what now? A few days ago I walked into the veggie garden and noticed something strange with my spinach. Most of the plants looked absolutely fine. In fact, during the day I didn’t really take much notice of them because I knew I...
Get Those Tomatoes Up! Different Ways to Trellis Your Tomatoes
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Before You Plant Your Tomatoes… Know This!
Determinate vs Indeterminate Tomatoes – What’s the Difference? You are standing at the nursery looking at all those beautiful little tomato seedlings. Roma. Cherry. Beefsteak. Cocktail. Yellow. Red. You pick a few, take them home, plant them… and then three...
Grow in Pots or Soil?
Container or garden bed? Where should you plant your veggies? Happy Wednesday, guys! Here’s a question I get quite often: “Tash, should I plant this in a pot… or should it go into the garden?” And the answer is — it depends on what you’re growing. I LOVE...
What to do with your containers in September
September always gets me excited. You walk outside, the days are getting a little longer, there’s new growth everywhere and suddenly you want to plant everything. But before you rush off to the nursery and come home with a boot full of seedlings — go and have a look...
Your Practical September Garden Checklist
This is your working garden companion for September. Print it out, keep it somewhere close, and actually use it. Take it into the garden, tick things off, write down what you're planting and make notes as you go.
By the end of September, I want this checklist to look like it has actually lived in your garden with you.
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HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU ACTUALLY PLANT FOR YOUR FAMILY?
Okay, so you’ve decided what you want to grow. You’ve bought the seeds. You’ve got the seedlings. And then comes the BIG question. How much must I actually plant? Because let’s be honest, it is VERY easy to get carried away. You open a packet of lettuce seeds, they’re...
ARE YOUR SEEDLINGS READY TO PLANT OUT?
September! We made it. The days are getting longer, there’s that little bit of warmth in the afternoon, and suddenly every gardener has the same feeling. RIGHT. LET’S PLANT EVERYTHING. And if you’ve been raising seedlings for the last few weeks, you’re probably...
Since moving into our house seven years ago we had had a problem with the grey coffee snout beetle (its…
n old strawberry bed can be a great place to grow something new, but it's best not to plant another…
Thank you for that most enlightening and interesting read re: Strawberries. What then, can one plant in the old Strawberry…
very informative. Thank you
Pyrol can help with grey coffee snout beetles, especially when they're doing serious damage. The way I look at it:…