Having a wider choice of vegetables varieties to grow – such as heritage and heirloom varieties – could be the key to increasing climate and food resilience. Alterations in global temperatures and disruption of regional weather patterns pose a major threat to food security – with growers and gardeners increasingly looking for food crops that …
In this month’s winter-wellness Organic Gardening Podcast, Fiona visits River Cottage to chat with author, chef and fermentation expert Rachel de Thample. Rachel de Thample shares how eating organically grown vegetables can have a positive impact on the gut microbiome – and dives in to how fermenting the produce from your garden can lead to …
With Beth Chatto’s head gardener. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and all other major podcast providers. This month, Fiona meets Åsa Gregers-Warg, head gardener at Beth Chatto Plants and Gardens. They tour the gardens and reflect on Beth Chatto’s legacy, discussing how we can adapt our gardens to promote resilience and withstand changing …
This National Allotment Week, Chris will be celebrating all that his vegetable plot has to offer – including plenty of wildlife. National Allotment Week (12-18 August) has been running for 22 years and is an important annual milestone that raises awareness of the value of land put aside for people to grow food. Allotments are …
In this month’s Organic Gardening Podcast we chat to Nick Mole from Pesticide Action Network (PAN UK) about why pesticides should be banned in urban areas. “Knowing there are alternatives to pesticides that work, makes pesticide use in our towns and cities completely unnecessary,” says Nick, policy officer at PAN UK, in our August podcast. …
We catch up with gardener and writer Sally Nex this Plastic Free July to find out how she recommends cutting back on plastic in your growing space. What do bed sheets, hessian and bacteria have in common? They might help us reduce the amount of plastic we use in our veg plots! Award-winning author, gardener, …
We’ve got a double bill this month to help you save more water in your garden over the summer. We’re joined by Jo Osborn from the charity Waterwise – who tells us that in England alone, we face a potential water deficit of close to 5,000 million litres of water every day by 2050. She …
Photo courtesy of Garden Organic… Chris reveals how he tackles these garden gastropods in an organic way. Many slugs help recycle plant matter so try to be kinder to them. It’s one of the most common questions I get asked as a gardener: “what do you do about the slugs and the snails”! https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/news/chris-collins-on-slugs-and-snails
Photo courtesy of Garden Organic…. In this month’s Organic Gardening Podcast, we find out about the gardening journey of Nick Hamilton and life at his beloved Barnsdale Gardens. https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/news/the-organic-gardening-podcast-may-2
Photo courtesy of Garden Organic….. Anything that was once living will compost, but some items are best avoided. For best results, use a mixture of ingredients and equal amounts by volume of ‘green’ and ‘brown’ items. ‘Green’ items include Grass cuttings / Young weeds / Nettles (not roots) / Comfrey leaves / Urine (ideally diluted …
