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Factsheets

Get started guides

  • Banishing gaps and gluts in the vegetable garden
  • Chemical-free plot clearing
  • Green manures
  • Growing from seed
  • How to use the advisory service
  • Managing your soil
  • Organic pest and disease control
Garden Organic members get online access to all our factsheets and guides. Find out about Garden Organic membership here.

Composting and soils

  • Building a compost bin
  • Buying a compost bin
  • Composting without a garden
  • How to make compost
  • Know your soil
  • Make your own potting compost
  • Soil analysis services
  • Sterilising soil
  • Using woody waste
  • Worm composting
Garden Organic members get online access to all our factsheets and guides. Find out about Garden Organic membership here.

Disease Control

  • Apple powdery mildew
  • Apple Scab and Pear Scab
  • Bitter Pit
  • Brown rot
  • Chocolate spot and other leaf spots on broad beans
  • Clubroot
  • Comfrey rust
  • Gooseberry mildew
  • Honey fungus
  • Leek rust
  • Onion Downy Mildew
  • Onion neck rot
  • Onion White Rot
  • Potato blackleg
  • Potato blight
  • Powdery Mildew
  • Rose blackspot
  • Rose Powdery Mildew
  • Spraing
  • Tomato blight
Garden Organic members get online access to all our factsheets and guides. Find out about Garden Organic membership here.

Fruit Management

  • Apple tree pests and diseases
  • Blackcurrant pests & diseases
  • Fruit tree/bush suppliers
  • Organic grape cultivation, diseases and disorders
  • Pear tree pests and diseases
  • Planting fruit trees & bushes
  • Plum pests & diseases
  • Raspberry pests & diseases
  • Resistant fruit at Ryton
  • Rootstocks for tree fruit
Garden Organic members get online access to all our factsheets and guides. Find out about Garden Organic membership here.

General Gardening

  • Bracken - a health risk?
  • Companion or mixed planting
  • Composts and manures in the organic garden
  • Conifer hedge browning
  • Crop rotation
  • Dealing with tree stumps
  • Edible aquatic plants
  • Edible flowers
  • Edible leaves
  • Exotic garden mushrooms
  • Frost and the gardener
  • Grow potatoes in containers
  • Growing potatoes
  • Hanging basket liners
  • Lead and the gardener
  • Living willow structures
  • Making leafmould
  • No-Dig gardening
  • Polytunnels
  • Rats and the gardener
  • Resistant vegetable varities
  • Sedum roofs
  • Sending in samples
  • Shredders
  • Storing the harvest
  • Unusual root vegetables
  • Using fresh seaweed
  • Using wood in the garden
  • Water in the organic garden
Garden Organic members get online access to all our factsheets and guides. Find out about Garden Organic membership here.

Information sheets

  • Courses in Organic Horticulture
  • Organic food production
  • Sustainable barbeque charcoal
  • The reed bed sewage system at Garden Organic Ryton
Garden Organic members get online access to all our factsheets and guides. Find out about Garden Organic membership here.

Pest Control

  • Ants
  • Aphids
  • Attracting beneficial insects
  • Cabbage aphid
  • Cabbage whitefly
  • Carrot fly
  • Codling moth
  • Cutworm
  • Earwigs
  • Flea beetle
  • Glasshouse red spider mite
  • Gooseberry sawfly
  • Greenhouse whitefly
  • Leatherjackets
  • Leek moth
  • Moles
  • New Zealand flatworm
  • Pea & bean weevil
  • Pear midge & leaf blister mite
  • Pollen beetle
  • Potato pests & diseases
  • Raspberry beetle
  • Scale insects
  • Sciarid fly
  • Slugs and snails
  • Vine weevil
  • Wireworm
  • Woodlice
  • Woolly aphid
Garden Organic members get online access to all our factsheets and guides. Find out about Garden Organic membership here.

Weed Control

  • Controlling ragwort
  • Horsetail
  • Mulches for weed control
Garden Organic members get online access to all our factsheets and guides. Find out about Garden Organic membership here.

Wildlife Gardening

  • Attracting beneficial insects
  • Bumblebee nest boxes
  • Creating a wildflower meadow
  • Flowers for the wildlife garden
  • Lacewings
  • Ladybirds
  • Nettles
  • Setting up a pond
  • Shrubs & climbers for wildlife
  • Trees for the wildlife garden
  • Troubleshooting in the garden pond
Garden Organic members get online access to all our factsheets and guides. Find out about Garden Organic membership here.

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