Category archives: Gardening & Farming

Best Way to Sweeten Your Room with Herb Sachets, Bags, and Pillows

It used to be common practice to place sachets — small bags perfumed by herbs — between layers of clothes to give them a pleasing fragrance. Lavender-based mixtures have long been the most popular for this. Historically, sachets also served the more practical function of covering up musty smells or… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Train Greenhouse Cucumbers

Greenhouse varieties are easier to manage and produce a greater yield of clean fruit when trained up supports firmly attached to the greenhouse frame. There are two basic methods of training them.

Cordon system

This involves training each plant up a single cane or string. It is useful… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Prevent Problems When Growing Peppers and Chillies

Peppers in a greenhouse may be attacked by all the pests that affect tomatoes: aphids, whitefly and spider mites.

Aphids can infect the plants with a virus as well as weakening them by feeding on the sap. The sugary substance the aphids excrete will make the leaves sticky and will… Continue Reading…