One of the best ways to recycle your used kitchen waste is through a wormery. But what is a wormery? It is a purpose-built container in which a specific type of worm (brandling worms) lives. These worms consume your fruit and vegetable waste from the kitchen and then leave in their wake worm compost that is incredibly nutritious and perfect for your soil. Wormeries also create nutritious liquid fertilisers. Consider that your vegetable waste is…
As the season changes and your existing summer bedding plants die off, your search begins for the best winter plants to refill your summer hanging baskets with plants that will keep going throughout winter. There are very few that will make it through the winter, so you won’t have as many options as you did for your spring and summer baskets, but there are still some great basket plants that will weather winter, with the…
Pumpkins are a wonderful thing to grow if you have kids or grandkids coming around regularly. They are quite easy to cultivate, as long as you have a large patch of land, shelter from cold winds, and access to the sun. The sight of a colourful pumpkin come autumn will be well worth the investment and you can even use it in cooking so nothing should be wasted, even the seeds can be made into…
As the winter weather begins to take its toll and the cold weather weighs on you, rest assured you can add a few autumn and winter bedding plants to brighten your garden and your spirits. Well placed bedding plants can add colour and texture where it is otherwise lacking. So what plants are the best? Hardiness will vary in these plants so be aware of your climate and whether exceptionally cold temperatures is in your…
There are many ways that soil can change, and not always for the best. Thankfully there are ways that you can improve your garden soil to ensure it has all the nutrients needed for growing plants such as shrubs, perennials, trees and even vegetables and fruit bushes. Test the soil to determine what nutrients are missing and the pH It’s much easier to change the composition and nutrient profile than it is to change the…
