Kitchen Garden

1 min. di lettura

If you’re a parent looking for educational sites for your children about growing fruit and veg, take a look at www.topmarks.co.uk. Just enter ‘growing plants’ into its search engine and you’ll find a range of resources for children of all ages. Each

Grow to Eat

1 min. di lettura

Try growing baby vegetables. They are not just trendy from a gourmet point of view, but they are great for small spaces, are quicker to harvest and can be grown closer together. Traditionally, baby veggies are root crops or leafy greens that are pick

Horticulture

1 min. di lettura

Harvest! Staying on top of the harvest is one of the most important tasks of summer. Once the harvest season begins, peas and beans should be picked every day or two. Pull root crops like carrots and beets when they reach their ideal size, which is a

Grit

2 min. di lettura

Imagine growing tomatoes slightly bigger than peas, or heads of lettuce smaller than baseballs! Baby vegetables are popular right now. Often the entire plant is dwarfed, making it ideal where growing space is limited. Since most mature more quickly t

Homebuilding & Renovating

4 min. di lettura

Organic gardening is a thoroughly fulfilling and satisfying venture. It’s a great opportunity to ‘think globally, and act locally’, all from the comfort of your own garden. Growing produce organically is centred around avoiding herbicides and pestici

Backyard

1 min. di lettura

Since my own results with growing indoor and outdoor plants have been varied, I’m the first in line to take advice from experienced gardeners and professionals in landscaping and plants. A common nugget of advice I’ve been provided is to use liquid s

Amateur Gardening

1 min. di lettura

INTEREST in homegrown fruit and veg has never been higher, with sales of seeds and compost beating annual records. We try to grow a small selection of the varieties we eat the most of and this year we are trying a few more, too. We are lucky enough t

Good Organic Gardening

4 min. di lettura

Words & photos Jana Holmer No matter how much they love their gardens, not many gardeners get to turn their passion into a career. In Kyrstie Barcak’s case, her life and that of her family are centred on her vegie patch. For her, the gardening bug in

NPR

3 min. di lettura

Faith wanted to boost her $200 monthly income as a counselor for people with HIV. So she turned to farming. How did the crop turn out? On a warm sunny August day at Kwale town on the Kenyan Coast, Faith tends to her small urban farm. She is uprooting

Kitchen Garden

5 min. di lettura

I have always been an avid grower. Dating back to when I was a child, I was given a small piece of garden which I proclaimed was “my vegetable plot”. From those early days I was hooked and from that moment my passion for growing has stayed with me. H

Amateur Gardening

1 min. di lettura

WE don’t have a massive amount of room for growing fruit and veg so we have maximised the space by putting in raised beds and rotating the crops every year to keep the soil healthy. Our patio also becomes a secondary edibles nursery in summer, crowde

The Saturday Evening Post

1 min. di lettura

Spring is ripe with a variety of healthy fresh fruits and vegetables that boast an impressive nutrient profile — including asparagus, strawberries, broccoli, peas, and early tomatoes. Proof positive: Of 39 eating plans ranked by health experts on eas

POPSUGAR

2 min. di lettura

If you're just getting into gardening, it might surprise you how many things you didn't know about the craft. From types of plants to different water irrigation systems, there are a handful of important things that factor into starting a garden. Whet

Kitchen Garden

5 min. di lettura

Dobies has more than 200 years of gardening experience in selecting, growing and selling the very best varieties for today’s gardener. Our comprehensive catalogue reflects our passion to find the latest vegetable, flower and fruit seeds, bulbs, plant

American Farmhouse Style

1 min. di lettura

For landscape designers, the yard is equally as important as the home. Such was the case for Teryl Ciarlo, designer and owner of Teryl Designs Landscaping. When she first spotted a 1930s home in Los Angeles, California, she was drawn to its “old trad

Yoga Journal

1 min. di lettura

WHAT’S BETTER THAN a meal you’ve cooked? One you’ve grown! A home garden not only saves money, it also reduces your carbon footprint and, when eaten fresh, delivers more nutrients. For instance, tomatoes, lettuce, and carrots can lose up to 7o percen

Home

4 min. di lettura

Who said that beds maketh the garden? Well, no one, actually! And that’s great news for the balcony, stoep, and patio gardener. You can still enjoy all the glory of gardening by playing with pots, experimenting with the colour wheel, using vertical p

MOTHER EARTH NEWS

9 min. di lettura

I first discovered MOTHER EARTH NEWS when a copy was sitting on the coffee table of a friend’s country home. I was a city boy at the time, and dreamed of someday having my own homestead. But how could I make it happen? I had no money, no experience,

Pick Me Up

2 min. di lettura

With nearly three quarters of us having gardened more than usual this year, you might think planting and growing are nearing an end. But that’s not the case! Feeding your plants is so important, even up until the very end of their growing period. If

BBC Gardeners' World

3 min. di lettura

May marks the start of what I like to call my ‘big plant push’, when fruit and veg planting really begins › but I’ll be growing flowers and herbs, too. I’m always eager to plant out my young tomato plants that I sowed in February – I have to be a lit

BBC Gardeners' World

2 min. di lettura

How I wish my plot always looked as it has over the past two months – full of colour from my flowers, fruit and veg. Sadly, but thankfully slowly, the plants are starting to look a little exhausted, as I pick the last of the summer crops. Harvesting

Kitchen Garden

2 min. di lettura

Greenhouse and garden equipment specialist Two Wests & Elliott designs and manufactures an extensive range in-house. Two Wests Own Brand products include staging, shelving, potting benches, cold frames and fruit cages, all made from high-quality, rot

BBC Gardeners' World

2 min. di lettura

No summer plot would be complete without tomatoes, and don’t think that small gardens are at a disadvantage – far from it. Vertical growing is where it’s at, and nothing could be more vertical than a single stem trained straight into the air. These t

The Gardener Magazine

1 min. di lettura

Green beans are one of summer’s most prolific veggies, but if you find that they are not performing well, it could be that they are planted too close to a member of the onion family. They also don’t like being planted with dill, fennel or garlic, eve

Organic NZ

4 min. di lettura

Garden gluts are no fun – and finding space in an overfull garden is just plain stressful. Whether you’re growing veges, annual herbs or flowers, sow just a tiny pinch of seed every 3–4 weeks to keep the harvest coming on-stream. And by sowing into s

Good Organic Gardening

4 min. di lettura

Imagine booking a weekend retreat to a B&B tucked away in a quiet corner of the lower Hunter Valley, then rocking up to a vine-draped little Eden of 60-odd fruit and nut trees and over 40 herb and vegie beds — along with the more predictable comforts

SA Garden and Home

2 min. di lettura

Why: It’s a good choice for low-water gardens and butterflies love its abundant, extra-large, golden, daisy-like flowers that appear throughout summer. Where: It’s most effective in groups, as edging, and in containers and hanging baskets. It thrive

Earth Garden

3 min. di lettura

WE’RE stone-cold amateurs with limited coinage so it would be naïve to assume that our first season as market gardeners would be flawless. An unseasonably warm winter growing large quantities of vegies in virgin beds with just us, two wheelbarrows an

Amateur Gardening

1 min. di lettura

ONE question that keeps coming up at talks and recordings is whether or not we can re-use potting compost. With gardens getting smaller, more gardeners are growing more in containers – and the problem is not just the cost of new compost but also what

Good Organic Gardening

3 min. di lettura

By Jennifer Stackhouse COOL & TEMPERATE The warm soils of early autumn provide ideal conditions for planting crops for winter and spring harvests. Over the month ahead, night-time temperatures get colder and so will the soil. For now, though, summer