Growing your own garlic is super easy. As well as being a delicious crop, garlic can also be used to add structure and interest to a garden border as well…
Smallholding
How to make a Garden safe for Children
Making a garden safe for children is essential to their well-being. Kids should be encouraged to spend a lot of time outside, and playing in a garden is one of…
Growing and Caring for Apple Trees
Apples trees are one of the easiest fruit tress to grow at home in a back garden, no matter what size garden you have. Even if you just have a…
How to Grow Globe Artichokes
Globe artichokes are a tasty vegetable and also look good in the veggie patch thanks to their long stems and large buds. The silvery foliage is very attractive, which is…
How to Grow Asparagus – Grow your Own Guide
Freshly picked spears of asparagus are a taste to be savoured, especially when you have grown it yourself. Why pay over the odds for asparagus at the supermarket, when you…
How to Cut Kitchen Waste and keep a Healthy Compost Bin
The kitchen waste bin is one of the most eco-friendly additions to household refuse collection and recycling, but with the useful fertiliser that comes out of a healthy compost bin,…
Helping Hedgehogs in your Garden
It was late in September. I looked out of my patio door and shrieked with delight! There was a mummy hedgehog, with two tiny babies, eating from my cats’ bowls.…
9 Easy to Recognise Wild Foods for Beginner Foragers
Wild foods are abundant, and they are also healthy. So learning some easy to recognise wild foods is a great way to begin using them in your diet. Packed full…
Flowers for Bees: Making a Bee Friendly Garden
Bees are one of the most important insects for pollination, and now with the increased use of pesticides on crops, the bee populations are in decline. We all need to…
Five Chicken Breeds for Back Garden Flocks
So, you’ve decided you want to keep poultry in your back garden. That’s great! But, how do you know what breed is right for your back garden flock? There are…
Identifying Field Mushrooms and how to dry them – No Fear Foraging!
I’ve been collecting field mushrooms ever since I was a kid, when I used to go out foraging with my Dad. Now, I often go out looking for field mushrooms…
Lambing Tutorial – Preparing, Birthing and Caring for Lambs
Lambing season is now in full swing, with fields filling bouncy lambs and the sound of cute bleating. There is lots to understand about lambing. For smallholders who are lambing…