May 2025 - Bite Sized Gardening

How Reliable Is AI Gardening Advice?

On May 28, 2025 By Stefan Drew

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I’m One Of The Gardening “Old Boys” Often Asked How Reliable Is AI Gardening Advice? I Love Technology So Here’s My AI Focused Gardening Answer.How reliable AI gardening advice is really depends on how your ask the question and how knowledgeable your are and able to determine what is wheat and what is chaff! … More Leave a comment

Optical Illusions in Garden Design

On May 26, 2025 By Stefan Drew

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Modern Gardens Are Small, But Using Perspective & Optical Illusions in Garden Design Can Make Them Appear Bigger. This Article Reveals All. I recently posted photos of my garden and people remarked how big it was. But it was an idea built on optical illusions.… More Leave a comment

Determinate or Indeterminate Tomatoes

On May 22, 2025 By Stefan Drew

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Are Your Tomatoes Determinate or Indeterminate? Knowing Dictates How You Grow Them As Explained Here. Should You Sideshoot Or Not? Read The Answers Below In a guest Post From Mags Mills. A little information about tomato plants growing habits. Cordon or bush is not the growers preference, but is to do with where the plant produces its flower/fruit trusses, amongst other traits, differently.… More Leave a comment

Cañahua (Chenopodium pallidicaule): The Andean Super Grain

On May 21, 2025 By Stefan Drew

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Cañahua (Chenopodium Pallidicaule), Also Spelled Cañihua, Is An Ancient Grain Native To The High-Altitude Regions Of The Andes, Closely Related To Quinoa (Chenopodium Quinoa) And Kañiwa (Chenopodium Pallidicaule Var. Milleanum). It Has Been Cultivated For Thousands Of Years By Indigenous Communities In Peru, Bolivia & Ecuador & Is Prized For Its Resilience And Nutritional Benefits.… More Leave a comment

Growing Wood Avens: A Cloves Substitute

On May 19, 2025 By Stefan Drew

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Wood Avens, Geum urbanum, Grows Wild In Many UK Gardens & Can Replace Cloves In the Kitchen Or Medical Cabinet. It Contains Eugenol & Tastes Like Cloves. In the video below Marlo from Wild Food UK shows how to forage in your garden, focusing on a common plant called Wood Avens, Geum urbanum, (or Wood Haven).… More Leave a comment

Seasonal Fruit & Veg in May

On May 18, 2025 By Stefan Drew

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What Seasonal Fruit & Veg Can Be Harvested In UK In May? Hungry Gap, Use Your Imagination To Beat It. What Are You Harvesting in May? Of course much depends on your location, soil type and microclimate. Wet seasons will generally be later than dryer warmer seasons and using a greenhouse, polytunnel or crop protection fleece is going to maker a huge difference.… More Leave a comment

Slug Resistant Vegetables? Do They Exist? Here Are Some Possibilities.

On May 16, 2025 By Stefan Drew

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Slugs & Snails Cause Garden Chaos. Are There Slug Resistant Vegetables? In This Article I Suggest a Few More Resistant Vegetable Plants. Most years I read a lot of social media posts complaining about slugs and snails. In wet years it is even worse, plants can be wiped out overnight.… More Leave a comment