We’re thinking about summer despite the snow! For all volunteer Master Gardeners, we’d love for you to send us watering top-tips. We’re keen to share your food growing enthusiasm across our mentored networks, websites, and Garden Organic’s membership magazine, ‘The Organic Way’. In fact, lots of growers are looking for the ingenious watering tips that [...]

For Garden Organic’s potato day on the 28 and 29 January 2012 – and more around the country, now is the time wake up your new seed potatoes by ‘chitting’. Just pop potatoes ‘rose’ end up – the end with most buds – in a clean egg box. Label the variety and put in a [...]

Home-grown veg needs a warm blanket as much as we do as cold weather covers the country… Try a ‘cloche’ over your salad plants left over from summer and any new chaps sown in August or September.  Cloches distract the nastiest weather to prompt a few more weeks cropping from salads in their private micro-climate. [...]

Get ready for three groups of crops jostling for your attention this month. Please click the links to open a PDF growing instructions for each crop. Group one: ready to harvest These keen crops include the following temptations for September (and into October with local weather permitting). Deep breath: Asparagus pea, aubergine, Chinese cabbage, summer [...]

Some seeds refuse to go on holiday. Waiting to be sown by gardeners tempted by sneaky crop and a spare watering can. Salads are the most keen: chicory, claytonia, corn salad, mizuma, mustard greens, and land cress, as well as lettuce and rocket when the weather is slightly cooler. Sow these chaps in August and [...]