February 2014

From Plot to Plate - Waltham Forest Gets Growing! [caption id="attachment_227" align="alignright" width="189"] Image credit: Nicola Tree[/caption] Cultivate, Waltham Forest’s first urban food growing festival, has lined up over 50 events, including a conference, food-a-fair and gardener’s question time as part of its Cultivate Waltham Forest food...

Weekly things to do list for your garden and greenhouse! Check out Gardens World website. It has a handy things to do list to help you prepare your garden and green house week by week and step by step! Jobs of the week Divide and replant snowdrop bulbs Snowdrops...

Build Your Own Juice

Here are three main reasons why you will want to consider incorporating vegetable juicing into your optimal health programme: 1) Juicing helps you absorb virtually all phytonutrients and vitamins and minerals from the vegetables and fruit you juice, which you otherwise may not absorb through simple...

BBC Food Growing Guide

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Make sure your compost has the right mixture of nutritional goodness!

Too Green This is a classic mistake made by many first time composters. They get their brand new compost bin and just use it to get rid of their grass cuttings, fruit and vegetable peelings. These are great things to put in a bin, but used...

What to put in your compost bin

Greens  Quick to rot and provide important nitrogen and moisture. Tea bags Grass cutting Vegetable peelings, salad leaves and fruit scraps Old flowers and nettles Coffee grounds and filter paper Spent bedding plants Rhubarb leaves Young annual weeds (e.g. chickweed) Browns Slower to rot, provide carbon & fiber and allow air pockets to form. Cardboard Egg boxes Scrunched up...

Composting made easy with this step by step guide

1. Find the right sight Ideally site your compost bin in a reasonably sunny site on bare soil. If you have to put your compost bin on concrete, tarmac or patio slabs ensure there’s a layer of paper and twigs or existing compost on the bottom....

Cut them and they keep coming back!

Salad Lettuce, rocket and other crunchy leaves are easy to grow. Super-easy to grow indoors all year around Constant harvest - leaves can be picked over and again and they’ll grow back Pick’n’ mix your favourite flavours, textures and varieties - peppery rocket, crunchy lettuce, exotic oriental saladini Complete growing...

Eat Seasonably: Fruit and Veg of the Month

Each fruit or vegetable has a prime time when it’s at its seasonal best. Some are great for over half of the year; others only hit their peak for a month. Either way it means extra flavour, extra crunch, extra juiciness—all super-fresh and great value. Leeks Packed...