So the end of the growing season is approaching and a distinct change in the daily temperatures is becoming noticeable. The runner beans, courgettes and tomatoes are starting to look a little ‘tired’, and their leaves are beginning to turn yellow as they struggle to produce the last few crops of the season. It is [...]
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Many gardeners have realised the huge advantage of having a water barrel / butt installed in their garden. An average house roof can produce 24,000 litres of water if the rain that falls on it is channeled into water butts so that it can be used on the garden. Rain water is far better for [...]
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The Winter is on it’s way and no doubt the vegetable gardeners amongst you have onions and shallots that you would like to store for Winter use. I am going to give you a couple of good ways to successfully store both of these crops and therefore ensure a good Winter supply of these healthy [...]
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So it’s got to the Autumn and you are finally digging the last of your maincrop and late potatoes with a view to storing them for Winter use. The next question that will arise is what is the best way to store your crop of potatoes in order to ensure minimal wastage and good quality [...]
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As winter approaches you probably still have a number of carrots in the ground that you will want to store for use over the Winter months if they aren’t going to go to waste. By now you may well be pretty sick of eating carrots, and your family and friends equally so. This is another [...]
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When you decide to grow your vegetables (or other plants) organically, you will immediately be faced with one major problem, how to control weeds without using weedkillers. I have experienced this problem on my sizeable allotment over the last two years but have now found the perfect solution. In year one I spent days on [...]
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Did you know that you can now grow many of your favourite vegetables in really weird and wonderful colours? We all tend to expect our carrots to be orange, our cauliflowers to have white or cream curds, our beans to be green and our beetroot to be red or dark pink, but today there are [...]
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One of the trickiest skills to get right in gardening is sowing seeds correctly, especially when some seeds are little more than dust wrapped in a scrap of greaseproof paper. I hope this article will help to offer advice as to the easiest ways to sow seeds, and may even help more experienced gardeners who [...]
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Growing vegetables for profit can be a very rewarding experience, especially if you grow them organically. Today there is a huge demand for organically grown vegetables, and as the most expensive crops on the market it is well worth the extra effort it takes to avoid spraying with pesticides and taking the time to [...]
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In the Beginning….. Following my success growing vegetables in containers last year, I decided to expand my efforts this year and also start up my own vegetable allotment on some of the unused land near our Guernsey freshwater fishing lake. This land was essentially a large stretch of field, previously uncultivated and only utilised [...]
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