We’re thinking about summer despite the snow! For all Warwickshire Master Gardeners, we’d love for you to send us watering top-tips. We’re keen to share your food growing enthusiasm across our mentored networks, websites, and Garden Organic’s membership magazine, ‘The Organic Way’. In fact, lots of growers are looking for the ingenious watering tips that [...]

My newest household is my colleague from the Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens. She has worked in the voluntary sector for a number of years and grew spuds for the first time in 2011. After months of recommending a heated propagator to her for starting off seedlings, she invested in the so-named asset [...]

With shopping list in hand, I asked all work colleagues from the Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens the spuds they all wanted to grow either at home or with our Growing with Schools programme. We chose a real selection from Potato Day. They either had to be a very forgiving variety for school [...]

Use winter to plot, plan and develop your growing.  There’s a whole lot of joy to be had looking at seed catalogues online, or getting them in the post and perusing in bed, curled up on the sofa, on the commute.  However, selecting can be mind boggling, given the wonderfully wide range of varieties plant [...]

Yes the nettles are back after a long spell when they’d gone to flower and seed and looked rather old, stringy and tired. The new vibrant shoots are bright green. I wonder if they spring up new shoots during the whole growing season or whether it’s just in Spring and Autumn.. Anyway why nettle soup? [...]