Crops are confused this month. We’ve had a mild winter, sunny March, and wet April so far. But May is the time for catching up with sowing seeds and planting out your favourite fruit and veg. Remember there’s still time to prepare quick growing harvest for your ‘Big Jubilee Lunch’ on the 3rd June 2012. [...]

We asked Garden Organic’s Master Gardeners for their top sowing tips to get you started growing food this spring. Here are some of their suggestions... “Sowing seeds is like bingo: eyes down for a full-house!” Steve Penny “When planting seeds with children, I recommend two seeds per hole to avoid those disappointed little faces.” Helen [...]

Now is the time to sow seeds for tasty cropping from hardy and tender vegetables. Get your plate ready for quick growing crops harvested from last spring – ideal for your ‘Big Jubilee Lunch’ on the 3rd June 2012. Or keep the BBQ hot for summer harvests – ideal for London 2012 celebrations! Please click [...]

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. [...]