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Ripening tomatoes - 5 Ways to Ripen Green Tomatoes

Ripening tomatoes is something that most people growing tomatoes end up doing. Due to our climate it is not at all unusual to be left with tomatoes that haven't ripened...
Sarah Talbot
5 More ways - Extend your growing season

5 More ways - Extend your growing season

Here are 5 more gardening tips to help you extend the growing season in your vegetable garden.  So, if the weather has left you feeling like you have had a...
Sarah Talbot
A guide to Growing bok choy or pak choi in containers

A guide to Growing bok choy or pak choi in containers

The standard Pak Choi (sometimes known as Bok Choy) is juicy, crisp, and fast maturing. It has a good, strong flavour, good resistance to bolting and fast growth and is...
Sarah Talbot
How to grow winter salad, the best way to grow winter salad leaves

A Guide to When to Plant Winter Salads

Many people are surprised to know that you can grow salad in winter very successfully without needing too much space or even a greenhouse. A sheltered spot and a little...
Sarah Talbot
beetroot - the best way to grow beetroot

How to Grow Beetroot - from sowing seeds to harvesting

Growing Beetroot Beetroot are easy to grow and ideal for anyone new to vegetable gardening. Most people think of it as a pickled salad vegetable. The young leaves can be...
Sarah Talbot
5 Tomato Growing Issues to Look Out For in a Wet Summer

5 Tomato Growing Issues to Look Out For in a Wet Summer

Growing tomatoes can be one of the most rewarding experiences in the garden, but a wet summer can play havoc with a successful tomato crop.  Discover the problems you could...
Sarah Talbot
How to grow green manure to improve soil and prevent erosion

How to Grow Green Manure For Better Soil

Gren manure are crops that you sow in order to enrich the soil and prevent soil erosion.  So, they grow and then rather than harvesting, you dig them back into the...
Sarah Talbot
The 'How and Why' of Attracting more bees to our Vegetable Gardens

The 'How and Why' of Attracting more bees to our Vegetable Gardens

Bees are essential pollinators, responsible for about one-third of the food we eat. Unfortunately, bee populations are declining due to habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change. Discover how and why...
Sarah Talbot
Beginners Guide to Growing an Edible Container Garden

Beginners Guide to Growing an Edible Container Garden

Container gardening tips.  Find out how to grow your own food all summer long on a balcony or patio. From salads to tomatoes this is how to start a mini vegetable...
Sarah Talbot
Haxnicks gardening advice how to grow rhubarb the best way

Beginners Guide to Growing Rhubarb Crowns or Seeds

Discover how to grow rhubarb from seed or rhubarb crowns.  All you need to know from when and where to plant it to how to force and harvest it.
Sarah Talbot
haxnicks- how to garden with no digging- no dig method of gardening- gardening with no spade

Is the 'No Dig' method of gardening right for me?

What is No Dig? Put simply ‘No dig’ is exactly that - a means of gardening without digging over the plot each year. It is a a gardening method that...
Sarah Talbot
9 Companion Plants to Grow with Cucumber Plants (and 3 to AVOID!)

9 Companion Plants to Grow with Cucumber Plants (and 3 to AVOID!)

Companion Planting is key to successfully growing cucumber plants from seed.  In our latest blog you can discover 9 plants to plant alongside your cucumbers and 3 you should avoid.  
Sarah Talbot