Down To Earth With Jim Gardening

Down To Earth With Jim Gardening Helping you with your vegetable gardening questions and problems, and making growing your own delicious nutritious food more simple!

07/06/2026

When growing tomatoes in a polytunnel, sometimes the flowers need a helping hand with an electric toothbrush to pollinate them.
Problem is, pollinating insects struggle accessing polytunnels and greenhouses so tomato flowers can struggle to become pollinated. Which can seriously affect our yields!

04/06/2026

Cooking my cauliflower harvest! ๐Ÿ˜‹

Calendula ๐ŸŒผ
01/06/2026

Calendula ๐ŸŒผ

It won't be long before we're getting harvests like this! ๐Ÿ…Thereโ€™s honestly no comparison between heritage tomatoes and ...
29/05/2026

It won't be long before we're getting harvests like this! ๐Ÿ…
Thereโ€™s honestly no comparison between heritage tomatoes and the average supermarket tomato.

Heritage varieties are grown for flavour, colour and character.. not just shelf life and transport. Some are sweet, some are rich and smoky, some almost taste fruity. Every variety is different.

Shop bought tomatoes are often picked early, bred to survive transport, and can end up tasting watery or bland in comparison.

This year Iโ€™m growing a mix of incredible heritage varieties.
Weird shapes, crazy colours, but the flavour makes it completely worth it.

Once you grow your own heritage tomatoes, itโ€™s very hard to go back to supermarket ones ๐Ÿ˜…

Whatโ€™s the best tasting tomato youโ€™ve ever grown or tried?

Bit hot in the polytunnel today. And that's with the double doors open at each end... I think we need some solar fans...
26/05/2026

Bit hot in the polytunnel today. And that's with the double doors open at each end...
I think we need some solar fans...

24/05/2026

Polytunnel Time Lapse ๐Ÿ…

May ๐ŸŒž
22/05/2026

May ๐ŸŒž

My allotment in 2019 VS now. It's been hard work, but I'm always learning, improving, and tweaking things
19/05/2026

My allotment in 2019 VS now. It's been hard work, but I'm always learning, improving, and tweaking things

August brings an abundance of veggies!
26/08/2024

August brings an abundance of veggies!

01/11/2023

I've got some exciting news! my mother has taken on an allotment near to my plot, so now we have plot number 2 to work on! I'll be keeping you all updated on...

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