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.
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…
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…