Following our blog post predicting trends for 2012, we’ve noticed a real groundswell of activity around the area of growing your own food.  Particularly relating to community growing projects.  A fascinating initiative (featured on BBC radio 4) has been launched by a community group in Scarborough, UK.  The Scarborough Growing Opportunities Group, it’s an innovative…

People often ask us what goes on in the MyGardenSchool classrooms, and as the concept of a ‘virtual gardening school’ is a new one – we try and share as much insight into our gardening courses as we can.  We get some amazing feedback from our loyal students, so we thought we’d have a peek…

In many ways, we’ve come full circle. The global recession has prompted us to dig deep and re-examine our values – and also for many to re-examine our bank balances. Perhaps a good thing, is a resurgence in interest in growing our own food. We love this wartime list of vegetables – from 1948 –…

If you’re looking for what vegetables to grow in your garden now, or a vegetable growing diary, -we’re here to help!    We thought we’d start gather information real-time from our students in different areas in the world, as to what food to plant right now.  Whether you’re an allotment gardener, have veg in pots, or…

We love this infographic by TreeHugger.com that lays out all the different methods of composting and helps you figure out which one is best for you. Sometimes this is a minefield and this is a great reference check in on. If you have any composting tips please write in our comments box. We’d love to…

You don’t generally think of compost for its beauty.  But I do think this timelapse video of rotting compost really captures its beauty.  Strange but true.. The time-lapse video was made by a doctor who identifies himself as Henry and is posted on his site Webiocosm.

Our friends at Love the Garden are running a Vegetable Garden competition for all bloggers out there. The prize is a £200 meal at a restaurant of your choice (so don’t choose the chippie – you’ll be in there forever). This month’s theme is potatoes, so all you need to do is post a potato…

It turns out my son, Jude Bonaparte Sinclair, has inherited my grandad’s green fingers. He won best petunia in school award. Not best in class, not best in year, but best in SCHOOL. The competition was arranged by Byrkley Garden Centre. They distributed seeds to local schools, including Jude’s, All Saints’ CE Primary School in…

Strawberries are one of the most universally grown fruit all over the world.  (Let alone one of the prettiest – and not forgetting delicious – fruits that many of us grow to love as children). So here’s some of our top tips on how to grow strawberries and which varieties to choose:   Strawberries don’t…

I learned two very important lessons over the past fortnight: • It is very hard to keep things growing in ground that has not been looked after • It is very hard to stop things growing in ground that has So first to the allotment. The leeks, cabbages and ornamental spinach that Sharon gave me…