Posts Tagged ‘harvesting’
Make Your Community Garden a Winter Wildlife Haven
Once high summer has passed and many summer crops have been harvested, September is a wonderful time to consider wildlife. Think about the creatures that share your community garden and how you can help them through the forthcoming winter months. As summer turns into autumn, insects will still be searching for nectar, while birds will…
Read More...September’s Seed Saving Jobs
September is an ideal time to collect and store seed, share successful varieties, and prepare for another season of growing. Save a Seed, Grow a Community September is the month best known in the growing calendar as harvest time. However, the harvest from a community garden doesn’t have to end with the vegetables and fruit.…
Read More...Summer survivors: Grow your own vegetables
Long, sunny days are wonderful for crops in community gardens and allotments, until the rain comes to an abrupt halt! With hotter, drier summers becoming more common across the UK, consider how to grow your own vegetables successfully. Some crops positively revel in sunshine and lack of rain, whilst others struggle when temperatures soar. Constant…
Read More...Holiday-Proof Your Community Garden
August is a wonderful month in the garden. There is a glorious abundance of summer veg crops, and containers are at their very best. It’s also the time when many of the community head off on holiday. This leaves behind the question of how to keep plants well watered when fewer folk are around. The…
Read More...Autumn vegetables to grow
Autumn can often feel like it isn’t possible to grow any more produce. However, there are still plenty of vegetables to grow through the autumn months to give you a head start next year. Carrots Humble carrots can be quite frost-hardy, so are great to continue growing in autumn. One carrot variety suitable for growing…
Read More...Top 5 vegetables for children to grow
Sometimes, getting children to eat vegetables can be challenging. However, a great way to help overcome this is to encourage them to have a go at growing their own! Spring is the perfect time of year for sowing veg seeds and planting out veg seedlings. Here are five easy-to-grow types of vegetables that might just…
Read More...Crops to grow year-round
Whilst traditional to sow and grow vegetables annually, it might surprise you that some crops keep growing year-round. Or for most of the year and these are known as perennial veg. There are huge advantages to having perennial veg, the most important that you can harvest from many of them year-round. This saves you money,…
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