Archive for the ‘Container Gardening’ Category
The growing of tomatoes is often seen as some sort of dark art, requiring knowledge passed down the ages from allotmenteer to allotmenteer. Talk of determinate and indeterminate varieties, the need to pinch out (or not), supporting and soil types, plus the perceived need for a large greenhouse puts many people off trying to grow them.
Home-grown strawberries are infinitely better than shop bought, probably because they’re picked when ripe and not flown halfway across the world to sit on the shelves of your local supermarket.