How To Preserve Garlic
We show you how to preserve garlic to get the most out of your garlic harvest.
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Grow Your Own Food: Pip’s Free eBookÂ
Our ‘Sow, Know, Grow’ eBook will teach you how to grow enough food to feed your family every night of the week.
5 Health Benefits of Gardening
Science is starting to catch up with what gardeners already know – growing food and caring for a garden is hugely beneficial for the body, mind and spirit.
Pip Profile: Laurie Green (Crop Swap)
Crop Swap founder Laurie Green reveals how her produce swapping initiative helps build community, reduce food waste and allows people to eat better, for less.
How (And Why) To Chit Potatoes
Choosing to chit potatoes may have its detractors, but we say it can't hurt to practice this old-fashioned garden ritual.
What To Do With Sprouting Garlic
Here are our top tips for getting your sprouting garlic to go a little further.
7 Winter Greens To Grow Or Forage
Here are our top winter greens to grow or forage to boost up your dinner plate with extra-leafy goodness.
7 Cost-Effective Vegetables To Grow At Home
These seven cost-effective vegetables to grow in your garden will not only save you money, they’ll offer you year-round harvests from your own garden or balcony.
How To Plant A Berry Patch
Winter is the perfect time to prepare your patch for that crop of summer berries you’ve always wanted.
Home Composting: All Your Questions Answered
Need some home composting assistance? We’ve put together some of the common questions we receive to help you with any issues you may be having with your composting pile.
5 Reasons To Plant Hops At Home
Think only craft beer enthusiasts have a reason to plant hops at home? Think again! Much more than an essential component of beer, hops (Humulus lupulus) is a pretty perennial plant with many uses. Hops are actually a bine, and not a vine, as they don’t…
Composting Seeds, Pips, Stones… & Other Tricky Things!
Composting seeds, pips, stones, citrus, garlic and onion needn’t be a hassle. We show you how to turn these scraps into garden gold.
Designing a Fruit Tree GuildÂ
Create a thriving and productive mini ecosystem that supports your fruit tree by designing a fruit tree guild – a permaculture technique in which a group of plants are chosen to complement and support a central plant.Â
Growing Pineapples From Tops
Don’t discard that prickly pineapple top, put it to good use instead. We show you how to start growing pineapples from tops.
Making Newspaper Seedling Pots
Making newspaper seedling pots is an inexpensive and sustainable way to raise your seedlings. Not only are you eliminating plastic from the process, but it’s better for your plants, too. There are so many advantages to using paper seedling pots. In…
Coloured Chicken Eggs: Breeds That Lay Outside The Spectrum
From the snow white eggs from a Leghorn to the deep browns of the Marans, find out which chicken breed produces which coloured eggs.
5 Edible Flowers To Grow In Your Garden
Anyone interested in edible gardening tends to grow vegetables, but have you ever considered growing edible flowers?
5 Unexpected Benefits of Going Zero Waste
We bring you the top five unexpected benefits you’ll experience once you commit to going zero waste.
How To Make Weed Tea Fertiliser
Turning your weeds into tea gets rid of them for good while producing an inexpensive and nutritious fertiliser for your garden. Pulling weeds out of your garden is one thing, but disposing of them once out of the soil in…
How To Make Zero Waste Natural Bath Bombs
Make your own beautiful zero waste natural bath bombs with our simple recipe.
How To Trellis Tomatoes
There are so many variables when it comes to working out the best technique for how to trellis tomatoes. We can learn a lot from people who grow them for a living.Â
