Listing Details| ID: | 2769 |
| Title: | Grow Veg - http://www.growveg.com/ |
| Description: | The innovative garden planning tool which helps you grow fruit and vegetables to the best of their ability, whatever the size or shape of your garden or plot. |
| Category: | Recreation: Gardening |
| RSS Feed: | Latest blog posts |
| Resources: | Free Trial Our 30-day free trial enables you to use all the features of our Garden Planning Tool – the interactive way to plan your vegetable garden. Grow Guides Our online guide to growing vegetables. |
| Added: | April 07, 2008 08:51:31 PM |
| Referrals: | 1 |
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| Latest feed from Grow Veg The Price of Organic Food There are certain accepted facts in life: prices go up, people are living longer and organic food is more expensive than non-organic. Right? Well, incredible as it may sound, the Soil Association has this week published a study that challenges the last of these assumptions. According to research done by farm business consultants Andersons, the price of oil is going to dramatically change the profitability of farming systems. Green Manures – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly How to improve the fertility of your soil is a question that all good gardeners take seriously. One of the most under-used methods of soil improvement is the use of green manures (called ‘fall cover crops’ in America), plants grown specifically to be dug back into the soil to improve it. In principle this sounds pretty easy – just sprinkle some seed on the ground after the main crop has been harvested and then dig the plants in after a few weeks. But in practice there’s a lot more to it, so I thought I would do a little experimenting to find the perfect green manure. Value to Space Rating I love this time of year when the harvest is rolling in, when you can wander round the garden and pick enough to make up a meal from the ingredients you have in your hand. But it also gets me reflecting on the choices I made when planning this year’s garden. Could I have squeezed in more peas? What made the peppers do so well? Did I make the right choices about what to grow in the space I have? |