How to Harvest and Store Onions & Garlic
Gardeners! You've grown oinions and garlic in your allotment or garden and now want to discover how to harvest them and store for the winter. This blog covers how to store onions and garlic and looks back to how our ancestors did it in the past. Read on to discover how to preserve home grown onions all year long.
The best way to Grow Pumpkins
Pumpkins are a perfect crop to grow with children as they look impressive and can be...
All you need to know about Autumn Container Gardening
What are the benefits of planting seeds and bulbs in autumn containers? Growing plants ...
Discover when to Plant Spring Bulbs
Find out the right time to plant Spring bulbs. Did you know that the temperature alters whether the bulb flowers well or not? Discover the stages the bulbs under the soil fo through throughout the year to give you those gorgeous spring tulips, snowdrops and crocus.
How to grow your own pear tree from seed
Growing a pear tree from seed is possible, isn’t difficult and can be very rewarding if you have the patience as it takes time and care for a fruit tree to bloom. Some people advise against growing a pear tree as it can take up to ten years for a tree to produce fruit if at all! Whilst it is still feasible and very rewarding to grow a tree from a pear seed, they do not necessarily grow true to type. They made have different characteristics to their parent tree meaning their fruit may look and taste very different. Whatever the outcome from your pear tree grown from seed, if nothing else, you will always have pretty blossom that the pollinators will adore.
A Guide To Bare Root Plants
These are dormant (not actively growing) plants that have been grown in open ground, then dug up and supplied without any soil around their roots. The plants are planted during the dormant season and are usually purchased online or via mail order. When re-planted in the ground the plant will start to grow once again.