The UK’s Soil Association has announced that if all British farmland was converted to organic farming, at least 3.2 million tonnes of carbon would be absorbed by the soil each year – the equivalent of pulling almost 1 million cars off the roads....

It’s been a while since I last posted. Most of November saw Cape Town taking the mother of all hammerings in the wind and rain department – so what if it’s supposed to be summer here! My little garden took a heck of a beating. Between the gale-force...

It ain’t summer and it surely ain’t a salad until there’s cucumber in it. It might not be top of the nutritional content list, but cucumber really is the taste of summer, so if you’re growing your own salad leaves, it’s worth your while having a couple...

If you don’t have small kids in need of home-made “binoculars”, it’s probably a long time since you’ve attempted to devise a recycle-friendly use for toilet roll inserts. Well here’s one: they make ultra-cheap, biodegradable seedling holders. And...

Whether you’ve got a lot of space to work with or you’re simply hoping for a few tomatoes in containers, it can be hard to know where to start with your vegetable garden. Just deciding what to grow can pose a challenge for some, but the best advice...