When we move towards the end of July and into early August it can be easy to think the season for sowing new crops is over. To be fair that’s ….Read more
Category: Seasonal Articles
Seasonal Articles
Vegetable Harvesting Tips
Harvesting homegrown vegetables can be just as important as growing them as some crops can quickly go past their best and loose precious flavour and texture. Harvesting at just the ….Read more
The Vegetable Garden in Spring
Well, it’s been a while. I always have great intentions to write more articles every month but time seems to slip by so easily with the day to day business ….Read more
Foraging in Early Spring
Kit and her late husband Cyril wrote ‘Wild and Free – Cooking from Nature’ in 1978 in an attempt to document the wild foods available in Ireland’s hedgerows and meadows. The ….Read more
Top 5 Good Things To Do With Autumn Leaves
There’s something quite pleasant about raking up Autumn leaves, it feels like such an ancient, seasonal practice that it connects you not only with the current yearly cycle but ….Read more
September Update
September already, wha? Well I don’t know about you but I’ve had a great year in the vegetable garden. Yes, I’ve done a lot of work on my soil but ….Read more
Top 10 Great Overwintering Vegetables
We always get loads of calls in August / September looking for overwintering vegetable seedlings. Of course I’m delighted as we do a great range of vegetables for autumn planting ….Read more
The Vegetable Garden in May
May is just the best, isn’t it? Especially this year when the Winter has been stubbornly holding on for all it’s worth. The buds are finally popping on the trees ….Read more
Autumn in the Quickcrop Vegetable Garden
I just took the picture on the left out the window of the office, it doesn’t look quite as dramatic as it did in real life but does show that ….Read more
Garden Tools – Chillington Hoes or Azadas.
Why are Chillington garden tools so good? A Chillington Hoe is the UK name for a range of very particular tools whose design goes back thousands of years, to a ….Read more