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.
You know summer has arrived in your garden when the zucchini starts to roll in. With the warm weather, zucchini becomes the gift that keeps on giving. If you want to ensure that you have this prolific crop for years to come, try saving the seeds! Saving zucchini seeds is simple. All you need to…
If you’ve ever over-planted squash, you’re not alone. Who among us hasn’t planted four or five zucchini plants when we could have got away with just one? Save yourself the trauma of eating mountains of zucchini bread by scaling back your squash plantings to just a couple of plants in a few different varieties. Zucchini,…
Bush beans and pole beans are great crops for gardeners that love continuous harvests, but choosing between the two might be tougher than you think. In the article below, we’ll look at how to grow bush beans and pole beans, the differences between them, and hopefully, help you to decide which type of bean plant…
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…