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  1. January podcast – Start the year with our award winning podcast
  2. Autumn Leaves

    Celebrating prestigious awards and planning ahead

    Now is the perfect time to buy plants bare-root online, as opposed to in a pot at a garden centre. It allows you to make sure you are buying from an organic and peat free nursery and reduces your plastic consumption. Chris also explains how bare-root plants can establish a better root system, giving a healthier mature plant.

  3. Broad beans growing at Edible Playground project

    Edible Playground Project - keeping students hungry for knowledge

    Garden Organic has been in partnership with the charity Trees for Cities since January 2020 as part of the Edible Playground project. The aim is to encourage children to grow and eat more fruit and vegetables. We are currently working with three primary schools in West Bromwich and four in Nottingham.

  4. Berries with snow on

    Go green for Christmas and save money

    For many households, the festive season is a time when more waste than usual is produced. We wanted to share a few simple tips and swaps to help you reduce waste, save you money and give you a greener, merrier Christmas.

  5. Garden Organic signs peat ban letter to George Eustace, Environment Secretary

  6. New report reveals damning statistics on the industry’s move to peat-free composts
  7. Chris Collins' allotment mid makeover

    “My little piece of the planet". The well-being benefits from allotment gardening

    A recent study from Sheffield University shows the many ways in which allotment growing benefits individuals as well as society. And it doesn't have to be just allotment growing. Growing your own veg and flowers provides mental and physical well-being, improves nature connectedness, adds to social capital and community cohesion.

  8. person in white suit spraying weed killer on plants.

    Partnership between UN FAO and agrochemical industry causes concern

    Garden Organic have added their signature to a letter to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), urging them to drop their proposed partnership with CropLife – an organisation which represents the agrochemical industry.

  9. Pea pods as part of schools growing project

    1 hour online waste reduction presentations for schools

    Our wonderful community engagement team are still working hard on projects that are committed to finding new ways to deliver workshops on organic and sustainable growing and waste management practices to reach people despite continued and ever-changing restrictions.

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    Winter salads – top tips for growing organic salads indoors

    If you’ve enjoyed growing your own fresh organic food this summer, don’t be fooled into thinking it has to stop over the winter. You can keep your household in organic salads and greens without venturing outside. Not only are they easy to grow indoors, but they will sprout and keep you in healthy vitamins within weeks of sowing. Here’s how: