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Sustainable gardening is healthy for the planet, and it can be done on a budget too. One of the reasons that drove us to launch our online shop was because we saw growers and gardeners being overcharged for some of the coir products they buy, especially in smaller quantities. We have continued to bring an […]
For our Featured Grower series this week, we spoke to Katrina and Clayton (@buildingafoodforest_scotland). Katrina and Clayton live with their family in East Ayrshire, Scotland and share their daily life in the garden on instagram. They practice permaculture principles in the garden, reducing and repurposing waste whenever they can. Clayton completed the Grow and Learn […]
March 20-26, 2023 is #TreesAreTheKey Awareness Week, a new campaign that coincides with the International Day of Forests, which falls on 21st March. In this blog post, we share some tips and suggestions on planting trees in your garden. At the same time, March 22, 2023 is also World Water Day, where this year’s theme […]
Our Featured Grower this week is Dawn (@dawns_gardening). In this blog post, Dawn spoke to us about how she started growing, what she loves to grow, and what she enjoys the most about gardening. She emphasised the need for gardeners and growers to get to know their garden, and also shared with us how gardening […]
With our environment constantly under threat, being more conscious of how our everyday gardening practices impact the environment around us, is important. Eating your own, home-grown produce can help ‘save significant amounts of greenhouse gas emissions’, while spending time in nature also has a multitude of benefits for our physical and mental health and wellbeing. […]
CoirProducts.co.uk Featured Grower this week is Dawn Warden(@dawns_gardening). Dawn spoke to us about how she started growing, what she loves to grow, and what she enjoys the most about gardening. Dawn also shared with us some of the environmentally-friendly methods she adopts when gardening as well as her experiences of using CoirProducts. Gardening has helped Dawn […]
CoirProducts.co.uk Featured Grower this week is Julia (@parkers_patch). For Julia, gardening is fun, productive, and 100% therapeutic. In this blog post, Julia spoke to us about what she loves to grow, her process of growing and working with plants, sustainable gardening practices that she adopts, and what she finds the most rewarding as well as […]
What are you looking forward to sowing this spring? With the days getting longer and warmer, there is plenty to sow and grow this spring. With a huge variety of seeds to choose from, some seeds can be directly sown onto the ground while the others are best sown indoors to be planted out later […]
CoirProducts.co.uk Featured Grower this week is Sarah (@sambos_allotment). In this blog post, Sarah tells us how she started gardening and talks to us about her biggest inspiration, her grandad, while also sharing with us what she loves to grow and lessons she has learnt along the way. Sarah also spoke to us about her plot […]
Our Featured Grower this week is Kay Maynard (@brook_cottage_), who shared with us her gardening journey. Having started gardening a few years ago, in this blog post, Kay recounts how she is a huge fan of trees, how she loves to garden for wildlife, and some of the lessons she has learnt along the way. […]
