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Growing your own vegetables guide and downloads
If you’re starting out growing your own veg at home, in an allotment or sharing plots with friends, we’ve found a fabulous resource. It’s iGrowVeg.com and we’ll bring you regular alerts and highlights from its Planning Your ...
Garden
What about a wormery?
The Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap) recently undertook a study which shows UK households throw away about a third of the food they buy. Roughly half of the 6.7 million tonnes of food thrown in the bin each year is edible and ...
Stories - Recycling
My worm diary
Make it and Mend it member Seamus from Vermont USA sent us this piece about his experience raising Red Wiggler worms in a wormery - he wants to dispel any fears that keeping a wormery inside the house causes smells. Here's his ...
Garden
Top tips for successful seeds!
It might still be cold and wet outside, but now's a good time to get your seedlings going for a fantastic summer display. We've compiled a great list of top tips to help the novice gardener getting started with planting your first ...
Garden
How to grow garlic
Garlic can be planted in the autumn (October/ November) or Spring (December to February). It's incredibly easy to plant and very hardy so it's a great bet for novice vegetable gardeners. Garlic doesn't produce seeds: all you have to ...
Seasonal
Made with love – homemade gifts for Valentine’s day
It’s nearly Valentine’s day - a day guaranteed to strike terror into some of the hardiest of folk! How are you meant to show someone that you love them? What should you buy? Will they like it? Will they loath it? Will it be ...
Garden
Planning a herb garden
One of the few compensations of the month of January is that you can always curl up in front of the fire, away from the filthy weather, reading seed catalogues. The wind may be howling, the snow may be drifting, or the rain may be beating ...
Garden
How to make a table from a pottery pot
I'm sure I’m like most gardeners who have a million unused pots lying around or stacked up on the potting bench, and I also know I’m not likely to plant all of them! Hating to see a perfectly good pot go to waste, I came up with a ...
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