Kitchen Garden Guide
Organic Growing
A selection of the OmVed team's top tips on growing food organically. From sowing seeds to organic pest control.
Top Tips
Three Sisters Method
Corn, beans and squash all growing in perfect intercropping harmony.
Peat-Free Compost
We thought we would put 3 of our favourite peat-free composts to the test, who will win?
Organic Bird Proofing
How to create a natural bird proofing frame using tree clippings from the garden. Vicky shows us a natural way to protect your baby plants and seeds from hungry birds.
Easy Onion Sowing
Easy onion sowing with Vicky.
Growing Garlic
Garlic is one of the few things you can plant in November. Here’s OmVed Garden’s Vicky with a guide on the different garlic varieties and how to plant them.
Slug and Snail Protection
Top tips to protect your plants from slugs and snails.
Stories
Decolonising the Garden
Meet the ‘outspoken gardener’ who sees possibilities of an otherwise. Sui Searle founded the platform Decolonising the Garden to create a shared space for underrepresented voices in gardening and horticulture.
Digging Deep
A group for Black men in Toronto is using sustainable gardening to reconnect participants with nature and start conversations about mental wellness and positive masculinity.
The Gut Soil Connection
From live cultures to permaculture, soil health and human gut health are intrinsically and ancestrally linked.
Biodynamic by Nature
André Tranquilini is the estate manager at Waltham Place, a 220 acre organic and biodynamic farm and garden in Berkshire, UK. Originally from Brazil, he has worked extensively as a market gardener and outdoor teacher, and is a founding member of the biodynamic seed company, Living Seeds, in Portugal.
Dispersal
Seeds come in as many different shapes, sizes and designs as the plants they are to become. They float, they fly, they stick and they burst. A photographic exploration of the structures and dispersal of seeds.
Interview with Vicky Chown
Vicky Chown is a medical herbalist, forager and gardener. She teaches permaculture and urban food growing at OmVed Gardens - where she also co-organises the Seed Saving Network - a biodiverse community of seed savers in London and across the UK.