A guide to Winter plant protection on the plot - how to protect your crops from frost, snow, and Winter problems.

Lemons can be grown successfully in the UK but you need to remember that they are not hardy. Most varieties will tolerate temperatures down to 5°C but some only down to 10°C Check before buying. The ...

Some years ago we moved to a new house which had a tiny suburban garden giving little room for growing vegetables, mainly a small herb bed and some salad crops. Then I realised there was an allotment ...

The traditional bean support frame was constructed with coppiced poles, about 8 feet, 2.4 metres long and around 2”, 50mm thick at the base. Nowadays most people just use bamboo canes. Ideally the ...

Clubroot has been known about since the 13th Century but wasn’t named until the 19th Century. A severe outbreak decimated the cabbage crop in St Petersburg, Russia and the Russian Gardening Society ...

Start by planning exactly where the path is to go. I’d suggest seeing how you walk from A to B as this will be the natural place for the path. There’s no point in laying a path and then stepping off ...

Most compound fertilisers will contain three elements essential for growth, NPK which stands for Nitrogen (N) Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K). These elements help plants grow in different ways. An ...

Hazelnuts are easy to grow. They are often used as hedging and grown for their wood, as well as their delicious nuts. They are naturally vigorous, large multi-stemmed bushes, often coppiced for their ...

Vegetable growing – how to grow vegetables, guides & advice, articles. These vegetable growing guides are designed to introduce you to the main facts needed when growing the individual vegetables. In ...

Welcome to my allotment garden diary. Quite simply this is a record of our success and failures growing our own, gardening and trying to live the good life. A diary is actually a really useful tool ...

As with the three year crop rotations and five year crop rotations, we divide our plot up after allowing for the permanent beds of comfrey, asparagus and rhubarb etc. In this case into four beds or ...

Marrows are cucurbits (the same family as courgettes, squash and cucumbers). There is almost no difference betrween marrows and courgettes – just leave a courgette to grow and you have a marrow. The ...