5 Ways to Preserve the Summer Harvest Without Canning

Ok, Ill admit it. I dont like canning. It means a hot kitchen on some of the hottest days of the year. It means clamps, jars, tongs that are all easily lost. It also means food that is pot

Growing Your Own Garlic in 5 Simple Steps

A Beginners Guide to Growing Garlic at HomeWhy Grow Your Own?Aside from being almost ridiculously easy to grow, your garlic is going to be fresher and tastier than any imported store bough

Frugal Gardening - How to Grow and Propagate Beautiful Bromeliades

External Flower of BromeliadeThe exotic Bromeliade grows with many vibrant colorful leaves. Some small flowers hide in the cup, where, others have protruding spike flowers. Grow these both in the home or your garden

Sewing Netting for Greenhouse or Polytunnel Doors

I like machine sewing but Im really not a big fan of stitching on net fabrics since they are a little tricky to sew. However, I wanted a large insect mesh curtain for the entrance doo

Tips on Making and Using a DIY Bird Bath

You can buy a range of bird baths in so many styles for your back yard and outdoor space. We have one that we bought on a pedestal and its really great. But you really dont need to spend m

Growing Gardeners Delight Cherry Tomatoes

Back in May, I was lucky to receive three small pots of tomatoes that my father had grown from seed. These small plants were the popular Gardeners Delight variety of cherry

How to Sow Turnips for Container Growing

This is the first time Ive tried growing turnips and I liked the look of this heritage variety Manchester Market by Thompson & Morgan. You can sow these seeds in mid June to

Where to Place Bird Feeders in the Garden

If youre new to bird watching in your garden or if youre not impressed so far with the progress youve made in attracting some feathered friends, it could well be to do with the placement o

Making a Frog Habitat in a Small Garden

I thought we had a couple of frogs in our garden but it turns out that I was wrong. Weve got more than that. Im not entirely sure how many but they keep on cropping up from hiding places l

Growing and Harvesting Manchester Market Turnips

Its been a journey with my turnip growing but roughly two months after being sowed, I started to enjoy eating the first of these wonderful and nutritious little roots. What is more unique

Growing Lollo Rossa Loose Leaf Lettuce

In the middle of last summer, I inherited a pot full of very sad Lollo Rossa lettuce seedlings when my daughter finished her gardening club at school. There were lots of straggly and very thin stems and leaves of le

Making a Wild Garden Area in the Backyard

In the spring of 2013 we added some bird tables and feeders into the garden and decided to start developing a wild area of land to encourage the local wildlife. Before we started on our jo

Caring for an Outdoor Container Garden While on Vacation

Leaving the garden to go away even on a short holiday was something that filled me with a sense of dread. Its not always possible to get other people in to water your garden. As some close

Tips on How to Get Rid of Aphids on Roses Naturally

If you happen to see a lot of insects clustered on your roses, particularly on areas of new growth with leaves, shoots and emerging buds, they are most likely aphids.Rose plants really att

Review of the Gardman Polytunnel

The Gardman Walk-In Polytunnel is 3 x 2 x 1.9 meters in size. I choose this model despite some pretty scathing reviews about it online. My main reason for getting this was t

Gardman Windowsill Seed Raising Kit Review

I bought some new seedling trays and pots to try for growing and starting vegetable seeds off this year. One set were some tiny fiber pots that Ive decided Im not particularly keen on usin

Why I Wanted a Polytunnel in the Garden

One of the more recent purchases for the garden, has been a polytunnel. This is a polyethylene greenhouse and has a structure that is easier to put up and take down than a traditional glas

Alternative to Anti Hotspot Tape for Polytunnels

In the run up to some particularly warm weather, I became concerned at how hot the framework became on my polytunnel. I was a little worried about the potential of burning my skin or, wors

7 Spring Yard Care Tips

This spring, take care of your lawn right from the beginning and you will have an easier time maintaining your lawn through the summer. Here are 7 tips to get you going down the right path.

Six Healthy Reasons to Enjoy Gardening

From fad diets and new superfoods to the latest exercise equipment, we are bombarded by promotions for products which promise amazing health benefits. However, instead of investing hard earned cash on the latest health m