A practical guide to feeding QuadGrow planters – how to top up safely, which fertilisers to use, and the big mistake I’ll never make again.
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Self-watering in the greenhouse
Comments are DisabledWe’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 3 quadgrow units in the greenhouse which we use to grow tomatoes, peppers and aubergines and we’ve even grown various herbs in them. They have […]
Setting up the greenhouse for the summer season with my self-watering pots
2 commentsI think April might just be the most exciting and most infuriating month in my gardening calendar. The weather can be scorching sun on day and snow the next, as we’ve seen in Scotland over the last couple of weeks. And those changes are really frustrating when you are an […]
My experiment: growing courgettes in a quadgrow
Comments are DisabledI’m doing one of my mad experiments in the garden again. It’s completely unplanned but hey ho. I had a spare quadgrow sitting gathering dust and two scrawny little courgette plant babies that I was going to bin. So I thought, if it doesn’t work then it’s no loss. So […]
Growing tomatoes in the cold climate of Scotland. Yup it is possible.
6 commentsEverything you need to know to grow huge crops of tomatoes, yes even in Scotland
Quadgrow-plus: greenhouse gadgets galore
2 commentsYou know I love my gadgets and this year I’ve had some fantastic success with my greenhouse gadgets (namely the quadgrow watering system). Well following on from that I treated myself to another quadgrow product, one which will house salad as well as pots for larger plants like peppers or chillies. Everything has been […]
It’s all getting a bit exciting in the greenhouse – bell peppers in the quadgrow
Comments are DisabledLots of excitement happening in the greenhouse this year with the arrival of our first peppers, some of which are red already 🙂 We like to try to experiment a little, it doesn’t always work to be fair, but it’s fun to try and this years experiment was sweet / bell […]
It’s May and finally we get some garden time!
Comments are DisabledIt feels like forever since Kate and I had some garden time. It’s been a mix of my very intense studies, which pretty much take up all of my time and the fact that the weather has been pretty awful, but now that my studies are over for the summer […]
2016 review: Quadgrow, would I recommend it?
5 commentsThat’s the tomato growing season come to an end here at At Bruidair and so the green house has been cleaned up for winter. Those who have been following my adventure with the new watering system may be wondering what my final thoughts were, would I recommend it, was I happy […]
Can you go on holiday and not come home to a dead greenhouse? With quadgrow you can.
2 commentsWhen I installed my new quadgrow watering system in the greenhouse, one of my questions was, “will I be able to go off on holiday for a week and come home to happy and healthy tomatoes or will everything be dead?” We’ll I’m happy to report that yes, we went […]
