Garden Organic inspire you and your community to grow organically. They also do many other things like advancing organic growing research and are home to the Heritage Seed Library & Master Composters. They want to help you make the most of whatever space you have available - whether that’s a windowsill, back garden, community garden or local park. Find out more on how to volunteer, they have a long history of delivering projects based in schools and communities.
Seeing photos of a professional flower grower using the paper mulch is delightful and makes us want to grow more flowers! @elderandwild is a Nottingham based wedding Florist...
Tollicroft in Dingwall provide veg boxes - delivered weekly to Ross-shire (withing 10 miles of Loch Ussie). Fortnightly deliveries to Inverness by arrangement.
They are a small and friendly family run croft in the heart of Brahan, producing seasonal fruit and vegetables. They have soft fruit for pick your own in summer, grow seasonal root vegetables for veg boxes throughout the winter (until end April and hand reared pork is also available when in season and grass fed lambs are fattened for Spring. They use the Lightweight Cornstarch biodegradable Film.
I was already as proud as a pumpkin this season because so many farms have converted to using the lightweight cornstarch film for their businesses. But seeing this photo, what an image! Taken by @robertsfarnshop who will be getting their pumpkins ready for picking, any day now.
Thank you lovely allotment for providing us with an absolute abundance of tomatoes, courgettes, cabbage, sweetcorn, chard, berries and beans. We have been harvesting, composting and getting ready to cover our un-used beds with mulch for winter protection.
We copy what the larger growers do and use the biodegradable Lightweight Cornstarch Film for our pumpkin patch. It can be rolled out by hand as well as machine laid and the results each season are so satisfying. The film maintains its mulching efficacy for no less than four - six months and no more than nine - twelve months, depending on moisture, soil activity and other variables. But what we can say for sure, is that this film works perfectly for growing pumpkins!
It's garlic planting time again. Give them a greater chance to grow big, strong and weed free whilst impressing yourself and neighbours with the neatest of rows. All ages and even the most fidgety will find this project satisfying. Roll the pre-punched paper mulch, use a dibber in the soil and plant those onion cloves in one by one..
Although we didn't win (wahhh!?) It's still good to have it on record that we were nominated for The Women in Green Business Awards 2024 and were shortlisted. It was an honour to be alongside and introduced to other names in the industry....
This is a photo of gardener and homesteader Liz Zorab using the Heavyweight Cornstarch to establish her raised beds. Her video shows you how to make one in 30 mins!
We planted onion bulbs back in early Spring with the Pre-Punched paper. Mulch is so good for that all important establishment phase, less energy is wasted on competing with weeds (for the onions and us!)