Growing

These beetroot brownies are a really good and surprisingly healthy treat. The recipe uses less sugar than most brownie recipes, and it’s dairy-free too. Ingredients: (Makes approx 16 -20 brownies)…

Comfrey is an incredibly useful plant to have in the garden, both boosting soil fertility and providing attractive flowers for bees and pollinators. It re-grows very quickly, so you can…

Whether you are plugging the gaps from harvesting, or lost a few plants to cold weather earlier in the season, or to slugs more recently, there is plenty to pop…

When you get it right, basil is a great grower and will keep going for a while. It’s easy to get it wrong though, so here are some pointers to…

If you’re a salad lover, you’ve probably already found all our lettuces and leaves, but don’t forget to treat yourself to some tasty herbs too – and some edible flowers…

Leeks are planted a little differently to most other veggies. If you’re growing them for the first time, then follow these 3 steps so that you get bigger, better leeks…

This spring has been very dry already, and it looks as if the dry spell will continue for at least another week or so. So, it is a particularly good…

If you’re getting a herb garden on the go, wither in a dedicated patch in your plot or in a large planter, it will help to group your herbs according…

My veg patch has definitely been thinning out over the past few weeks. My sprouting broccoli is over, the Red Russian Kale has bolted (I probably should have been watering…

We will start sending out orders from late April onwards. We operate using quite a complex IT process to schedule each delivery based on plant availability and order date, and number…

A lot of gardening books and gardeners swear by the practice of crop rotation. It is a good practise and can be used to help keep pests and diseases to a…

If you’ve got some spinach (or rainbow chard) growing in the veg patch, this is a very simple pasta dish to rustle up this week… Ingredients: (serves 4) 350g linguine…