For next years fruit and veg, late summer/early autumn is ideal for getting your seeds, cheap and often for FREE! Peapods - The white powdery covered pods that have only half grown or been caught by the colder nights, etc, are ideal seed material.… more »

With Wimbledon fast approaching, I've been in the strawberry patch, giving it a final weeding and making sure that slugs hiding under leaves in the soil are not ready to eat them, as they did last year! The best thing to counter slugs is dryness, they… more »

With April showers fast approaching, it's the time of year when I turn to choosing which plants I want to grow from seeds. Seeds are an invaluable resource, where ever possible I'll be using a thrifty alternative to buying them in packets. I find it… more »