The Evolution of the Wild Cabbage Plant My recent bedtime reading has been ‘The Blind Watchmaker’ by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and I am now suffering from lack of sleep. ….Read more
Category: Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Preserving wild areas in your garden
This year I have slowly begun to move my garden into the field in front of my house by extending the lawn and creating a new orchard. The area is ….Read more
Heirloom, Open Pollinated and F1 Hybrid seeds.
I thought I’d quickly try to explain the difference between open pollinated and F1 seeds this week as I was asked about it twice over the last few days. There ….Read more
Fencing with James
This is a follow up to a weekly newsletter post where I mentioned a guy who worked with me a number of years ago who was always good for a ….Read more
A French Vegetable Garden in Languedoc
I have always been a bit jealous of my brother in law as despite not being the worlds best linguist he manages to communicate no matter what country he finds ….Read more
Top 10 Essential Garden Tools Every Gardener Should Own
The garden tools we sell in our online tool shop are all tools that we, as vegetable gardeners, use ourselves. We have sourced a selection of planting, digging, weeding, harvesting, pruning, maintenance ….Read more
West Cork Garlic Farm
You may remember we reported from the West Cork Garlic Farm in Southern Ireland earlier in the year. I include the latest report from Axel and Marye Miret from Enniskeane ….Read more
What’s so great about kale?
To compliment Dorcas Barry’s great energy boosting smoothie featured in this months newsletter I’m covering the leafy green part of the recipe to show just how easy they are to ….Read more
Vegetable Plug Plants Picker
Spring Seedlings We are now taking orders for our mail order herb and vegetable plant trays. Our ‘vegetable garden in a box’ packs are shipped out from late April/ early ….Read more
Top 10 Facts About Tomatoes
Tomatoes are easy to grow and are becoming a more and more popular crop. A couple of tomato plants will keep you in fresh tomatoes all summer long. Since now ….Read more