If you have ever wondered "whats eating my sweet pea seedlings?" then the answer is probably mice. Mice like cheese but mice LOVE sweet peas and peas too! Sweet peas in the greenhouse are vulnerable to mouse attack so here are the three ways I prevent sweet pea seedlings from becoming a rodent dinner
I have been busy helping Grandpa Haxnicks to dig manure into his vegetable plot and lea...
Since discovering the secret to growing fabulous beans in pots I have been impatient to put it to the test. Veg growers might not normally consider growing runner beans in pots, but these are not normal pots and, as you may have noticed, I am not a normal veg grower. I am some way off reaching the giant at the top, but the beans are certainly racing up and I can’t help but mutter fee-fi-fo-fum whilst tending to these lean, mean, fast-growing beans.
Growing veg in pots and planters means that juicy crops may be harder to reach for the rabbits, but those of you with a ground level vegetable patch have a harder task.
A Haxnicks Sunbubble was originally designed as an instant pop-up greenhouse, but we had not envisaged that it might become so much more than that. Some of you have been extremely creative with your Sunbubbles and I wanted to share your inspiration.
Eating a freshly picked salad, followed by a bowl of home-grown strawberries in the su...
