Featured Blogger: Matthew Biggs Diary

I wonder when summer will come?

I heard someone say recently: ‘I don’t wish to sound like a farmer, but the weather has been dreadful this year’! Whatever your profession, it has more than justified being our favourite topic of conversation. Cold, drought, heat, flooding and … [ Read More ]

Featured Blogger: Jean Vernon

Greenhouse Irrigation

It might seem an odd topic for this month’s Bean Feast, but unless there’s a problem rain doesn’t actually fall inside a greenhouse. This means that despite the recent deluge, your greenhouse plants (and mine) still need some of the … [ Read More ]

Featured Blogger: John Walker

Flogging faith in nature

There’s no need to buy solutions to pest problems that nature can solve for us. The only real problem is how to sell this idea.

Basil in the Heat

In the summer after finishing horticultural college I worked on a new herb garden on a hilltop near Sienna. Sounds gorgeous, eh? But the trouble with a new garden is the trees have not yet grown, and the trouble with … [ Read More ]

Featured Blogger: Jean Vernon

Identity Crisis

When it’s potting and planting time in the greenhouse the very act of labelling every single pot can almost seem to double the workload. But every gardener, well unless they’ve got a memory of a database, needs to keep records … [ Read More ]