You’ve heard it before and you’ll hear it again. Fresh water is a precious resource – and it’s in short supply. Growing food at home means regular watering, but despite this, growing your own veg is far less of a drain on the environment than buying it in a store. All the same, you’d like …
How shall we begin? I could give you a botany lesson…. DON’T RUN AWAY! I promise I won’t do it! Instead of cramming your head full of theory, let’s look at some practical things you can actually do something with. To create a gorgeous flower garden, you don’t need a bunch of terminology at your …
You like it hot and you loved the idea of growing your own chillies at home. But there were so many interesting varieties, the seeds germinated well, and now you’ve got more chillies than you know what to do with. Making chilli sauce offers one way to keep your surplus chillies for winter enjoyment, but …
It’s been a good few months since my last garden update. At that time, I had some very depressed looking chilli seedlings which in the end I had to abandon. As with most things in life, if you can learn some lessons from your failures you usually tend to do a bit better the next …
Hey, there, Australia! It’s hot! If winter chill is hard on plants, you can bet that summer heat is too. The challenge? Drought! Here’s how it works. Plants are a bit like straws, with the sun being the one sucking up the moisture. The roots absorb water. The leaves give up their water to the …
