Garden building materials
Once you have an area planned out, you can start thinking about what materials and surfaces to use. For the most part these should be fairly simple and inexpensive (ostentatiousness … Read More
Author: Frank Tozer
Making money from your garden
I am not suggesting that you turn your garden into a business (though that is up to you of course), but I want to point out how your garden can … Read More
Potato Onion
Allium cepa aggregatum group Introduction: The potato onion is a type of perennial multiplier onion (like shallot) that is thought to have originated in Scandinavia. It has the same growth … Read More
Vegetative propagation for everyone
When you really get into planting the garden you soon realize you can never have enough plants and one way to radically increase the number of plants in your garden … Read More
Sprouting Broccoli
Brassica oleracea var alboglabra Introduction: When old British gardening books talk about broccoli, they often meant Sprouting Broccoli), which is not the same as conventional Italian Broccoli, in that it … Read More
No-work food plants that should be in every garden
I’m a pretty casual gardener (to say the least) and really appreciate plants that produce food without requiring anything from me (this probably comes from my being a wild food … Read More
Making seedling flats
These shallow wooden boxes are the traditional seed sowing containers and despite the introduction of some excellent alternatives they continue to be popular. This is because they are versatile, easy … Read More
Soil blocks, making and using
Soil blocks are small compressed blocks of special sowing mix (this is not actually soil) used for starting seeds. They are fairly new in this country, but have been used … Read More
Wintercress
Barbarea vulgaris Brassicaceae This species gets its common name because it is very hardy and in milder areas it often remains green throughout the winter. It is often common in … Read More
Worm bins for kitchen waste
Many gardeners think of “fertilizers” as something they buy, while “waste” is something to be disposed of (via the ‘green waste’ bin.) This demonstrates how far we have all been … Read More