Growing Tips and Advice Archives

Sundried tomatoes, anyone?

With the long, hot summer still stretching out before us you can use it to your advantage and try sun drying tomatoes. It’s a great way to store and preserve…

Let your borlotti grow on for dried beans to store

If you’re growing borlotti beans why not let them just grow and grow, allowing them to dry out on the plant before harvesting them and storing them, ready to use…

A look ahead to autumn

Well, we’ve sold out of our summer plants and now we’ve launched a limited Autumn range of veg patches while we get a few tweaks made to our processes so…

Why we’re offering a limited autumn range

What an interesting growing season it has been this year! Gardeners and farmers across the UK have all suffered the effects of a very cold start to spring and then…

Summer Herb Management

To keep your herbs producing lots of lovely leaves, you may need to do a spot of pruning. Alternatively, let them flower and enjoy seeing the bees flock to your…

How to grow perfectly shaped carrots

If you’ve harvested your carrots lately only to find that they look a bit, well, blobby and mangled, then the answer lies in better soil and better spacing. There’s still…

Harvesting onions, shallots & garlic

There’s something deeply satisfying about pulling up a crop of onions (or shallots/garlic) and leaving them out in the sun to dry, but it’s an important job to do too…

Dealing with gluts

Are you drowning in courgettes? Are the tomatoes getting on top of you? Lots of people have more veg than they know what to do with at the moment, but…

Watering Advice

We’ve received a few emails from customers wondering how often to water this summer, so we thought we’d pop together a few pieces of advice… Water early in the mornings….