Get your garden summer-ready with easy-to-follow tips for beginner gardeners. This section breaks down the basics for a range of sun-loving veggies.
Growing peppers is famously challenging in our climate. The cooler winters and shorter summers create a constant balancing act between vegetative growth and fruit development. However, if you get the balance right you can easily plan how many pepper plants you’ll need to grow per person In this article, I want to talk about typical…
Choosing the best high-yielding tomato plants is more than a little complicated, but there are a few simple tricks to pick the best plants. Everything from variety to the health of seedlings and when you plant them will give you an indication of how many tomatoes each plant will produce. In this guide, I’ll be…
If you’re aiming for self-sufficiency on a low budget, and in a relatively small garden there is no better plant to grow than zucchini. Even tiny balcony gardens can accommodate a planter with one zucchini plant, and by the end of summer, you’ll have harvested so much that you’re sick of them! In this article,…
In recent years, we’ve become more and more self-sufficient, growing most of our fresh produce at home, leaving enough to preserve for winter. The only plant we grow purely for joy (and therefore receive significant gluts of) is tomato. Planning for the year ahead means knowing how many tomatoes to expect per plant, and the…
If you’re looking for a unique new crop to grow in your garden this year, then currant tomatoes may be right up your alley. Currant tomatoes are a fruit you may have never heard of before but once you try them, you’ll want them in your garden every year. Even if you’re not a tomato…
It’s true that growing tomatoes outdoors poses some challenges, but it’s not the impossible task some gardeners might have you believe. We’ve been gardening all of our lives at TGH, and it’s only in the last couple of years that we got our first greenhouse. Until then, all of our tomato plants were grown outside….