Fruit
Saving Seeds from Your Tomatoes and Bell Peppers
Let’s save seeds from this year’s tomatoes and bell peppers so that you don’t need to spend vital pennies on new seeds! Whether you’re an
Eli 25th September 2023
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Fruit
The Great Pepper Pruning Adventure: navigating the Ups and Downs of Summer Pruning
Pruning is always a scary topic, especially if you are relatively new to gardening so this is your advanced warning that today there is going to be some serious pruning going on. Buckle up because we’re diving headfirst into the wonderful world of summer pruning for bell peppers!
Eli 16th July 2023
Gardening
Self-watering in the greenhouse
We’ve made no secret of how much we love and how successful our current self-watering planters have been over the last 8 years. We have
Eli 9th June 2023
Gardening
Stop! You don’t have to sow seeds yet.
We’re having some fun with a serious topic today. Looking at social media feeds just now makes it look like everyone is sowing all of
Eli 15th January 2023
Food & Drink
Shakshuka from our homegrown veg
Quite often the recipes we use involve a bit of a tweak to accommodate whatever veg is fresh from the garden, and we have a
Eli 4th September 2022
Gardening
Busting the myth about pruning your peppers
We started this experiment way back last year, in September but it was a whopper that took a full season afterwards and we have only
Eli 21st August 2022
Gardening
The big pepper growing experiment: will I change how I do things?
This year we’ve had two experiments going in the garden, the first one being the tomatoes that are growing outdoors and the second the peppers
Eli 17th July 2022
Flowers
What can I sow now? Our monthly guide to seeds to sow.
We get asked on an almost daily basis, “what seeds can I sow?”So although it is a contentious one to give advice on, we thought
Eli 12th June 2022
Gardening
Should I prune my pepper plants?
So we have our first update of our pepper plant pruning experiment and we also have our first update on the overwintered pepper experiment. Part
Eli 9th May 2022
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