London Herb Garden has launched a Spring Kitchen Garden Seed Pack containing vegetable and herb seeds to help allotment holders kick start their spring.
The seeds have [...]
when rules resist the placement of any kind of shed, the mind begins to wander..
I’m going to have to lay down for a while…
London Herb Garden has launched a Spring Kitchen Garden Seed Pack containing vegetable and herb seeds to help allotment holders kick start their spring.
The seeds have [...]
London Herb Garden is a new business committed to ensuring that gardeners and allotment owners are able to try out the best herb and vegetable seed as easily as possible.
We asked Hannah [...]
Hello, my name is Tim Jeffries, General Manager at D.T.Brown.
Our company began more than a century ago supplying market gardeners locally in the north west before going on to sell [...]
We spoke with Terry Rayner, one of the senior partners at Terwins Seeds.
Terry has enjoyed a long career in the agricultural seeds trade, spending several years as a certified crops inspector.
Terry was [...]
A great tip came in from Ian Hazlehurst yesterday, thanks Ian for letting us share it..
If you’re having problems with [...]
A couple of years ago, two friends, Damion Young and Simon Haynes, were talking about their allotments and their passion [...]
A couple of weeks ago, on a recommendation, we took a trip down to Helmsley Walled Gardens. The seemingly sleepy town of [...]
Hello, my name is Maureen Chapman and I'm an agent and grower for Franchi - Seeds of Italy and I'm based in Yorkshire in the NE of England.
Hands up all those who who have already dismissed the idea of ... ∞
Chase Organics has a long history of supporting organic gardening.
Major LH Chase began the story in 1912, inventing cloches to protect his lettuces from the dirt and soot of the city, in the 1940’s visitors ... ∞
Urban environments are growing in extent and importance for wildlife.
Perhaps surprisingly, flower rich oases in otherwise uninviting city habitats can support large numbers of pollinating insects. For example, a single Leicester garden was found to contain 35% of British hoverfly species. Honeybees produce more honey in urban Birmingham than in the surrounding countryside. Pollinators supply a crucial ecological service, and finding ways to improve their lot is a major challenge.
This Urban Pollinators Project was designed to answer three questions:
1. What is best for pollinators: urban habitats, farmland or nature ... ∞
It was probably more years ago than I’d like to remember, that I was introduced to a world where allotments were cherished. I knew that my grandfather tended one but had never been invited nor had the possibility to see it for myself. It was while sitting my ‘A’ levels and waiting to join my parents in their new house in the West Country, that I was introduced to my grandfather's ... ∞
Hi, I`m Nadine from Reading University. I work in a project that investigates pollinators and their food plants in urban habitats such as gardens, allotments, cemeteries and local nature reserves.
If you'd like to read more about our project please click HERE
A sizeable number ... ∞ Hi, my name is Chrissie Gregory from Tuckers Seeds in Ashburton.
I’m in charge of producing our garden seed catalogue, ordering garden seeds and looking after many other aspects of the [...]
Allotments and Gardens: cold frames by Louise Curley
Want an economical solution to protecting plants [...]
We’ve been very fortunate to get our manure-ingrained hands on a copy of the latest book from the Charles Dowding collection.
Entitled ‘Organic Gardening – The Natural No-Dig Way’, it is a new full colour edition of [...]
Harvesting salads in March and potatoes in April, on an allotment, in Yorkshire.
It sounds impossible yet on one large allotment in Keighley, West Yorkshire; one man is doing just this – harvesting salad vegetables and potatoes in early [...]
A great tip came in from Ian Hazlehurst yesterday, thanks Ian for letting us share it..
If you’re having problems with a mole amongst your beds this simple method seems to do the job says Ian on his blog:
‘A Bamboo cane, split at the top, a CD pushed into the split & tied to the cane, [...]
We’ve been at the allotment again on Saturday – clearing the last of the weeds left from 3yrs of neglect.
We didn’t do this clearing the easy way – with a strimmer; oh no, muggins here had to do it by hand with a pair of shears and secateurs and a fork on the thick stuff. [...]
Allotments plan revealed for Yateley
Yateley will see its first allotment site built for several years as land next to a controversial housing development has been earmarked for around 40 garden plots.
The site next to the Clarks Farm Development on Reading [...]
An outbreak of late blight in potatoes has shone a light on a quiet revolution, which aims to banish the disease from gardens.
Playing the blame game requires not only a grasp of the facts, but also an eye on the [...]
The letter to the Councillors got a response. That’s actually an understatement..
We [...]
A couple of weekends ago, myself and Stew packed our over night bag, loaded the boot with Christmas presents – then set off to Newcastle [...]
Hi, I’m Andrew Davidson, (I’m on the left with the hat in the photo below) one of the founders of the new independent growers website Quickcrop.co.uk. My business partner Niall McAllister and I have both been keen growers for over 20 years with many friends and neighbours asking us for [...]











This is my small shed! http://flightplot.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/plot-view-2.jpg
a little beauty and all that you need. You could start a trend here – publishing photos of sheds !