Stephanie's Garden Blog

We're always keen to share our hands-on growing experience with others, and to support our local community - and this was an opportunity too good to miss. Our horticulturist Martin Fiddes takes up the story in his own words below...

Yet another set of famous horticultural initials, the HDRA carries the working name of Garden Organic. The organisation is a registered charity, and Europe's largest organic membership association.

If your local park or open space is a hidden horticultural gem, then it’s time to act – for the annual search is on to find Britain’s Best Park.

It's always satisfying when a technique you use in your own garden - in this case growing in guttering - is endorsed by one of the celebrity gardeners, and that's just what's happened in the February edition of Gardener's World magazine!

The British Red Cross, the charity funded global voluntary network, are running an Open Gardens programme in 2007 to help boost their coffers.

Wireworms, and their potential to devastate potato crops and many other garden vegetables and plants, were in the forefront of one of our customer's minds recently - and here's the advice our horticulturist Martin Fiddes gave him...

We all know that that proposals for the building of a huge amount of new homes countrywide puts allotments and other greenfield sites at risk - so growing our vegetables in containers may well become more and more popular.

The Harrod Horticultural ethos is global! Here's a little video clip for you which shows, I think, that biological pest control is worldwide!

Here at Harrod Horticultural we like to be leaders in the horticultural field, and to back this statement up, we're growing an early crop of tumbler tomatoes in our own Kitchen Garden.