Growing Fruit & Veg Reviews

I have never had green fingers and tend to drive most of my houseplants to an early death so I don't really know why I decided to start a vegetable patch in the back garden.... I had been growing things like salad leaves and tomatoes in pots before but that was relatively easy - buy the plant, put it in a bigger pot, water it, take ...

I am happy to say that, since my eldest son and his family moved into a house with a very big garden, they have all gone gardening mad and have the most fantastic vegetable garden and fruit trees. The garden was very rough and mostly laid to lawn when they first moved in, and it was also on a slope. My son has since altered the slope so ...

With the credit crunch now having a great effect on peoples lives.. with the ever increasing prices of fuel, heating and food, people are now trying to re-evaluate where they can save some money to try and stop the ever increasing cost of living. In recent months there has been a great increase in people starting to look at the way our ...

My Gardening Year A Grand Plan for 2007 It’s Christmas time. Lots of lovely food has been consumed. Presents opened with wild abandon and floors throughout the house piled high with the remnants of wrapping paper. There have been Christmas specials galore on the telly-box, late night film watching (“no work tomorrow” syndrome), and ...

As my profiles states, I, along with my husband grow fruit and vegetables organically. We are fortunate enough to rent 2 allotments just at the back of our house, and during the spring/summer months, can usually be found out there. We are by no means experts, and wild flowers and weeds are close neighbours to our crops, but we do manage to grow ...

What better for breaking up heavy clay soil than potatoes? They could not possibly be easier to grow, and everyone knows how versatile they are! No matter what size of vegetable plot or piece of garden you have to spare, you should be able to grow potatoes no problem. You can either buy seed potatoes, which come in loads of ...

Save money! Grow your own! Why spend a fortune on chillies at the supermarket when you can grow your own for next to nothing! I have 12 plants growing on my dining-room windowsill at the minute and they are all going mad. Guess what I grew them from? Two dried chillies that I had put in an eggcup last year in my spice ...

The temptation when growing vegatables is to set aside a patch of garden and relentlessly use it. There are many disadvantages with this - the soil quality will deteriorate and you will need to buy fertilizers. Pests will be able to move freely amongst your produce and last but not least, veg plots are seldom attractive features. Many ...

I have a really good tip, for growing Tomato's. It can be quite difficult to get a really good crop of tomato's even when using the best fertiliser's money can buy. What i do is, put a birth control pill in my watering can, then use this solution to water my tomato's. This method has never let me down yet, and ...