Lots of people grow fruit, veggies and herbs but a lot of people don’t realise that some decorative flowers are also edible! They look great in the garden, they attract wildlife (bees, butterflies, hoverflies, pollinating ...
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This week: Growing Po-tay-toes!
What Are Potatoes?
Great. They are just great.
Potatoes are a root crop, known as tubers. They are swellings of roots, and one seed potato can produce ten more. Potatoes are most commonly grown from seed potatoes, which ...
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This Week: Growing Brassicas
What Are Brassicas?
Brassicas include food such as cauliflower, broccoli, sprouts, turnip, swede, kohl rabi, cabbage, kale, and pak choi.
Turnip and swede were covered in the previous post, Root Crops – click here to ...
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This week: Growing Peas and Beans
What Are Peas and Beans?
Peas and beans are part of the legume family. They are great fun to grow, especially if you buy the different coloured varieties. This year I am growing green, purple and yellow French beans, red ...
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This week: Growing Root Crops
What Are Root Crops?
Root crops includes vegetables that are grown as the root part of the plant. The root swells and this is what we pull or dig up and eat. This includes;
Carrot
Parsnip
Radish
Beetroot ...
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This week: Growing Salad Crops
Sow and Grow with The Conservation Volunteers in Birmingham
Salad Growing in the UK
Most salad crops grow well in the UK. I grow mine both on my allotment and at home in raised beds in the back garden, but you can easily ...
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An Introduction to Growing Your Own
Sow and Grow with The Conservation Volunteers in Birmingham
During these strange times, The Conservation Volunteers in Birmingham will be encouraging people to grow their own food in their gardens, on windowsills, or at an ...
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Long thyme no see
Hello Everyone!
It’s been a while but the thyme has come to reignite this blog. I am a fan of puns, so please bear with me as I leaf my way through a list of them.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we have suspended all of ...
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Garden Year – March
Spring is now well and truly upon us and the TCV Health for Life Team have are well prepared for the new season; we've got potatoes chitting in egg boxes and seed trays for all of the sites, the bed have been turned and ...
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Garden Year – February
After a month’s worth of digging, digging and a little more digging for most it’s time to put down the fork and spade and begin to sow your first crops of the year. There are still plenty of jobs to do around the garden ...
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