Blog: Alice Whitehead

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How to Save Your Own Seeds

Alice Whitehead from Garden Organic shows you how and why you should save your vegetable seeds.

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Make Your Own Wormery

Alice Whitehead from Garden Organic shows you how to make a compact and cheap alternative to the traditional compost bin.

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Grow your own food – and save money!

Gardening organically allows you to grow fresh, cheap and abundant food close to home, while at the same time nurturing nature, writes Alice Whitehead from Garden Organic. Here’s eight things to…

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Grow Flowers to Eat

Flowers offer pollen, nectar and fabulous blooms – but some of them can also be good to eat, writes Alice Whitehead from sustainable gardening charity Garden Organic.

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Make The Most of Your Homegrown Pumpkins

A pumpkin isn’t just for decoration. This Halloween maximise your harvest by using up all the fruit – and saving the seeds for sowing. Alice Whitehead from Garden Organic shows you how…

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15 reasons to plant a fruit tree

Celebrate Apple Day this October by bringing food and wildlife habitats to your garden with one amazing plant, writes Alice Whitehead from Garden Organic

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How to make a gutter garden

Alice Whitehead from Garden Organic shares how to make the most of small spaces with a practical guide to making a grow your own gutter garden.