Garden Update I am making some progress in the garden this week with a few tips coming to mind which hopefully you will find helpful. The first tip I have ….Read more
Growing Your Own Food During A Pandemic – 10 tips from the experts
With the current pandemic forcing many of us to stay at home, there has been a surge in interest in growing your own food. Panic buying gave way to a ….Read more
March 31st Vegetable Garden Update – Sowing Lettuce & Pruning Fruit Trees
I am afraid we have had to close the Quickcrop site for 3 days and not taking any new orders until Friday. As I think I explained last week we ….Read more
March 2020 Vegetable Garden Update
Well, hello there folks. That’s been a strange couple of weeks hasn’t it? I apologise for the late mail but I have had the luminous vest on since last week ….Read more
The Quickcrop garden in March – dealing with a wet Spring
Due to a relatively dry end to last week I had thought the worst of the weather was over. I said as much on Facebook (and nearly caused an International ….Read more
Sowing Tomatoes in late February – How to sow tomatoes
Despite the fact that I am usually busy enough in the polytunnel in late Winter (sowing sweet peas, peppers, broad beans etc….), it is not until I sow my tomatoes ….Read more
Growing Tomatoes in NW London with Rhys Jaggar
Timetable for growing tomatoes: a summary of a decade of learning I started growing tomatoes in the wet summer of 2009 and was quite frankly, not very successful. It probably ….Read more
Compost Bin Comparisons – which is the best choice for you?
As bin charges increase and households try to be more environment friendly we are seeing a corresponding increase in home composting. We have been interested in domestic composting for a long ….Read more
Sowing Chillies in February – How to Grow Chilli Peppers.
Not too chilly for growing chillies! You don’t need me to tell you that we are having a wet and windy February. So far we have dealt with high winds ….Read more
Creating a Perennial Wildlife Garden – Part 1
The vegetable garden is still pretty quiet this week so I thought we would return to ornamental gardening and look at some of the plans for my garden and some ….Read more