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Avoseedo: an easy Way to Grow Avocados

I eat quite a lot of avocados. When I was living in Africa, we would go down to the end of the garden and pick the avocados straight from the tree. They’d ripen over the next few days, and before you’d know it, you’d have tons of avocados just to happily much through. Now, in […]

Composting Without a Compost Heap

I’ve currently got a box full of vegetable peelings, tea bags, fruit peel and coffee grounds sitting in my kitchen. I normally do, and it varies in states of decay dependant on how long it takes me to fill up the box. Sometimes the contents are fresh, dry, odor free. At other times I am […]

Gardening and Mental Health

Sometimes the world gets a little much. Sometimes coping mechanisms fail if they were ever there at all. And sometimes, life just gets you down. What do you do in those instances? We’ve known for a long time that gardening is good for you. Grow some plants, eat them, enjoy naturally produced local food, jam-packed […]

Recipe: Rhubarb and Ginger Tea

There are many ways of preserving food, but one of simplest is to dry it. Using either the rays of the sun, ovens or dehydrators, people have been preserving food by drying it for eons. And one of the nicest things that you can do with dried food is also one of the easiest – […]

Growing Tomatoes on Rooftops (or Anywhere Else For That Matter)

If you are new to growing your own food, tomatoes are a great place to start. Not only are they ridiculously easy to grow, but they will also taste wildly different from those that you can purchase at the supermarket. In order than your supermarket bought tomatoes arrive fresh and ripe to store, they are […]

Every Day Should Be Earth Day

In Paris, leaders from 160 different countries are gathered to sign the Paris Climate Agreement. Today has been chosen because it is Earth Day, a global day of activism that aims to help support and promote global sustainability and green projects. The Paris Climate Agreement outlines keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, with developed countries […]

5 Things You Could Do for Earth Day (But Probably Won’t)

I’m writing this because I’ve just got a little bit angry. I don’t get angry often, but sometimes I resort to it, normally out of pure frustration. And why am I frustrated? Well, because I’ve just spent some time Googling, and trying to find suggestions for what people can do to celebrate Earth Day. I […]

Tomato Facts

This morning I learnt a really interesting fact. Those little hairs that are present on the stem of tomatoes? You know the ones, and if not I’ve posted a picture below. Well, these are there for two reasons – to protect the plants from insects by creating a physical barrier, and to regulate the temperature […]

Growing Chillies Inside and Out

Chilli peppers are amazingly easy to grow. If you live in a cool climate, you can pop them on a south-facing window ledge, and they’ll thrive. Or, if you have a higher average outdoor temperature, they are also happy in full sun out in the garden. There are an abundance of different varieties, but here […]

Guide To Chilli Pepper Varieties

I like growing chilli peppers. They are really easy, and plentiful. They take up little space and grow as happily inside as they do out. All they want from life is sun, warmth, and the odd water. Consequently, I grow a lot of chillies. At the moment I have about 40 different plants, and about […]