Blood meal is a powdered plant food made from dried animal blood. While it’s not ideal for vegetarian gardeners, it is an excellent organic source of nitrogen and iron without having to turn to synthetic plant foods. While blood meal might seem like a magic bullet for the garden, fixing low nitrogen, it’s important to…
We’re obsessive tomato growers here at TGH, and try to grow enough to keep us fed right through summer and into early winter. That’s why we’re passionate to help you address any problems you might have with your tomatoes, from seed to harvest. If your tomato plant looks healthy but no flowers are opening or…
Despite being relatively easy to grow, and even easier to cook, beans have long confused gardeners thanks to their wide-ranging habits, and the cross-classification between runner beans and green beans, and pole beans and bush beans. In this article, we explain the key differences between runner beans and green beans, as well as how to…
There is no pest I hate more than the dreaded aphid. Greenfly or blackfly, this sap-sucking insect isn’t welcome in any garden, but every single year it never spares mine. So I learned to just accept it and prepare my arsenal of weapons for when it’s time to fight it. The internet is filled with…
Growing indeterminate tomatoes is not easy. Allowing them to do their own thing will result in a tangled mess and diseased plants. But even if you decide to train them vertically and prune them regularly, if you don’t use the right type of support, you’ll still be facing challenges. For a couple of years now…
It’s important to know what to look for when buying tomato seedlings. Healthy tomato seedlings will vary depending on the time of year, and it’s easy to fall into the trap of buying plants with tomatoes already on them but, should you buy tomato plants with fruit already ripening? Or is it best to buy…