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Hi, So, saw this website when looking for what to plant in my Garden (Well Yard...) Looks like a great idea as i am keen to grow lots of produce but have no soil and have to grow everythingin pots! The Government seem slow to turn usable wasteland into good growing space, and the list for an allotment is like the NHS operation shedule these days. So, anyone generous enough to share thier land is...

It's one of my favourite times of year that all of us look forward to on the shared patches with friends and family. Despite the "iffy" Summer, does this stop us enjoying the final harvest? No, I think not. There's just about enough left to pick in the garden, forage in the hedgerows and even have a go a planting some tasty things. It's been a brilliant harvest out of our three shared...

It's pumpkin harvesting time! All the tender care now sees it's fruition and hopefully we still have some pumpkins ripening under an Autumn Sun! Time to think about Halloween pumpkin carving, pumpkin recipes and starting pumpkin wine ready for drinking in early Spring to warm our hearts and give strength to those cold fingers digging the patch in the frosty New Year. ~ Harvesting ~ ...

This weekend I had both the first broccoli head and the first lettuce head and what a size they both were.  Each was comfortably bigger than my own head, so a lot of healthy eating to be done over the next few days. I have heard that you can get additional heads off the broccoli so I need to look up how to do that. Tomatoes are slowly growing this year - only one almost ready tomato and not...

There are lots of reasons to grow tomatoes. Officially a superfood, they’re packed with vitamins, especially vitamins C and A. Homegrown tomatoes picked and eaten straight from the bough smell and taste amazing compared to the bland packs sold in supermarkets. Children love to grow and eat them, and they look great in any allotment or garden. Some varieties also thrive in baskets, helping...

Well the rain stopped for a few days last week, so it gave me enough time to hand-weed, spray some of the broad-beans with a soft soap solution to eradicate the blackfly and add some more pelleted chicken manure. Everything else is coming on a treat, and pots filled with tumbler tomatoes, peppers, chillies, cucumbers and herbs are doing fine, although I am getting concerned that the rain is...

There's an article in the Independent today about how British tomatoes have improved in taste in recent years, especially those that we grow ourselves and eat straight from the vine... as long as they're the right variety. Apparently the best tomato on the high street is Marks & Spencers 'super sweetini' - but who needs the high street? In the Independent article, Lindsey Bareham, who...

I don't share my land, except with my friend who comes to stay and enjoys doing gardening with me. I did try offering my front garden for share, but except for one unreliable man who I didn't realy feel comfortable about, no one else showed up, so I'm thinking of making it into more of a wildlife, pond area and stick to the back garden for veg, soft fruit and a couple of apple trees. For those...

Carrots! Love them! Taken me years to grow knobbly twisted ones! Hours of scraping by the sink saying "Ohh look at these, aren't they good", whilst most of knobbly carrot goes in compost & one is left with tiny orange thing to eat.... Not so this year! Cracked it! I have tried growing them in pots, in borders and in raised beds for the last three years. I have conditioned soil, added...

Having been away from the garden for just over a week, this is what I came back to. Just one day's pickings & such a nice surprise too! So, I got 1 pumpkin, 1 pumpgette, 1 sweetcorn (left the others on the plants), plenty of tomatoes (St Pierre), zucchini and chillis. Certainly more than enough for tea and enough to last a few days! I will be dining on pumpkin soup as well as chilli...