The push towards a “green” lifestyle has inspired many people to consider growing their own food. The growing cost of groceries plays are part as well, and besides, it’s just healthier to eat fresh, organic food. Whatever your particular reason for wanting to grow your own food, there are some things to consider when it [...]
Whatever vegetables you plan to grow, you are bound to choose some of those key crops that are to be found in most vegetable gardens. These include seasonal favourites such as runner beans for summer, leeks for winter and purple sprouting broccoli for spring. Most gardeners with a vegetable plot will grow a few potatoes [...]
Join For some reason my Sedum plants are really short this year. Usually by September or October they are well over a foot high and blooming beautifully, but this year they are only about 6 to 8 inches tall! Very strange, must be the rainy summer we had. Did any of your plants do worse [...]
