Planting Sweetcorn
I made an early start this morning and I got outside to plant my sweetcorn before breakfast! Home grown sweetcorn tastes so much better than shop bought and there’s a reason for this. The sugars in the corn start to turn to starch as soon as they are picked! If you haven’t grown sweetcorn yourself […]
Chilli Growing Tips
I never used to have much luck growing chilli plants, that was until a couple of years ago, I decided to do some research to try to understand where I was going wrong. I discovered a number of chilli growing tips in books, online and even at my local farmers market where a gentleman used […]
Early Salad Crops
The extended cold winter we have had and slow start in the vegetable garden has made me rather grateful for the recent warmer weather we’ve had. I like to grow as much of my family’s fruit and vegetables as I can. But when you are nearly a month behind in the garden, it is frustrating […]
The Successional Strawberry Bed.
I have been building a successional strawberry bed over the last couple of weeks, now that the cold weather seems to be behind us. I have been using modern wooden sleepers for this which are held in place by square 3″ posts driven into the ground. The plan is to have a crop throughout the […]