Grow Your Own Potatoes in Containers

You don’t need 50 acres to be able to grow your own potatoes, you can grow potatoes in pots or containers on your patio, along the side of your drive or even on a balcony and growing potatoes is not nearly as complicated as most people think. We use large buckets or tubs placed around [...]

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5 Best British Allotment Blogs | Growing Vegetables

I’m always on the hunt for new blogs to read, tips to try out and photos to go ooo ahhhh at, so I thought I would share some of my best finds with you. Here are a collection of 5 British blogs about allotments and veggie’s, how to grow them (the vegetables, not the allotments) [...]

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How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

Do you know how to recycle your chisrtmas tree? Don’t just send it to landfill, it takes little effort to have it recycled. Now the festivities are over households all over the UK will be taking down their trees and storing their decorations away. But what to do with that christmas tree, usually dragged into [...]

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Help Countryside Garden Wildlife Survive the Winter

By providing some suitable areas of hibernation and nutritious food we can help our countryside garden wildlife survive the winter months. Here are a few simple things we can do to help our garden wildlife in winter but won’t take much time or effort, so there is no excuse! There are three ways wildlife can [...]

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Blogs Worth Reading – Home Matters Most

Found a great blog when looking for the Energy from Waste website and came across a blog post called websites worth knowing on the Home Matters Most blog. It would have been easy to simply click the link and move away from the site but the comment under the writers picture really struck me: “People [...]

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