Spring is fast approaching and with it the new growing season. Nothing beats that feeling when you harvest your own vegetables, but first you have to grow them! Here are our top tips for starting to grow vegetables this year.
It's a question that all of us up and down the country are trying to answer right now: "I am trying to be sustainable this Christmas, should I be getting a real tree or a plastic tree?".
There is no clear right and wrong, as is often the way with questions on sustainability, the answer is a bit more nuanced there are a lot of factors at hand. We have broken down the issue for you, so you can make an informed choice this Christmas.
The key goal of COP27 was to agree a strengthened set of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC's) - pledges by countries to reduce their emissions and remain aligned to the Paris climate accord.
Considered the holy grail of vegetable gardening - saving seeds is something every experience gardener has tried. Whether it's so you can keep on growing a great lineage of a prolific crop, or to save having to buy seeds next year, there is something quite magical about cultivating your own seeds.
The summer is a time of great potential for vegetable growing, but it is also a time of great danger - just a quick look at the number of frazzled pots on front porches or withered windowsill herb gardens will tell you all you need to know.
To best look after your vegetables, follow our three simple tips:
World Health Day 2022, and what better time to highlight on some of the health benefits of growing your own vegetables. Read on to see why growing at home is such a great thing to do.
On International Day of Forests, we are celebrating the importance of of woodlands and forests for our ecosystem. Read on for some of the major benefits of trees, and how we can protect them.
Today, March 3rd, marks UN World Wildlife Day. Celebrated since 2013 to raise awareness of the world’s animals and plants. This year, it is themed “recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”, seeking to highlight the conservation status of some of the most critically endangered species of wild fauna and flora.
Growing vegetables is so much fun, and there is no better time to start than this spring. At Sprout, we are on a mission to get people living in urban environments to grow vegetables at home. If you are thinking of starting a vegetable garden in 2022, these are our top tips!
October the 31st is a big date in the environmental calendar.
It's the opening day of COP26 - or the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, to give it it's full name - hosted by the UK in Glasgow. COPs are annual UN summits where all nations come together to try to solve climate change. The most famous recent one was COP21 in Paris in 2015, where the 'Paris Agreement' was devised to limit temperature rise to 1.5-2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.