It’s one of the most confusing problems in a UK vegetable garden. Your plants look healthy. They grow well. Then they flower beautifully. But no vegetables follow. Tomatoes flower but don’t set fruit. Courgettes bloom and drop. Beans flower and stall. Peppers form blossoms but nothing develops. This often leads gardeners to assume they need … Read more
One of the biggest frustrations in UK gardening is putting in effort and seeing slow results. You add compost. You stop digging. You mulch beds carefully. You water properly. Yet weeks later, the soil still feels heavy, plants still struggle, and nothing seems dramatically better. This often leads gardeners to think they are doing something … Read more
The short answer to how to improve garden soil is organic matter, added little and often: compost, well-rotted manure or leaf mould spread over the surface once or twice a year and left for the worms to work in. Everything else in this guide builds on that one habit, and it works on my heavy … Read more