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Maximizing Tomato Yield

August 25, 2009

I had an interesting conversation the other day with the folks who are responsible of the Dartmouth Square Project and  Edenbee about our upcoming talks at Electric Picnic. During the conversation their resident gardening authority  offered a couple of tips to help put my tomatoes on the fasttrack to ripeness.

I followed up our conversation with [...]

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Crowdsourced Urban Gardening

June 19, 2009

I have been looking for some answers recently on the web but haven’t been able to find them – so I thought I would outsource the problem to you guys!

First of all, big thanks to Susan Gallagher for all the hard work she’s done on the new website. I think you’ll agree it’s a smashing [...]

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Pollination: The Poke, Shake and Leave

June 3, 2009

Flowers have started appearing on some of the plants so I had a quick Google to see if my assistance was required in reproduction.

Specifically, the plants I was interested in were the pea plants, the tomato plants and the chili plants, each of which has a number of flowers now. I was surprised to see [...]

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