Grow Your Own Fruit & Veg
Site aims - To bring you some basic advice on suitable vegetable seed, sets and tuber varieties, for different areas of the U.K., especially the North. Encourage you to grow suitable varieties of vegetables in order that you will have vegetables in season, even in the spring and early summer.

The Old Orchard, Cromarty
The web site of the garden surrounding the Old Manse, Cromarty in Ross-shire, Scotland, owned by Ken and Kristina Dupar.

Get Digging With Alternative Tools
Online shop specialising in azadas, mattocks, long handled spades and forks, pitchforks and rakes.

The Scythe Shop
Online shop for Austrian scythes and realted tools. These are NOT you ordinary scythes, and are much lighter, sharper and more effective than the traditional heavy Scottish scythe. Since I got mine 5 years ago, I've not used our lawnmower or strimmer.

BBC Gardening page
Develop the essential skills to tackle everyday tasks in your garden. Our expert guides have videos and step-by-step advice to help you keep your garden in great condition. Select and grow your favourite plants, start a vegetable plot or discover organic gardening.

Gardener's Question Time
Seasoned experts Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness, Chris Beardshaw, John Cushnie, Matthew Biggs and Pippa Greenwood answer your questions with Eric Robson or Peter Gibbs in the chair.

Federation of City Farms
The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens exists to support, represent and promote community-managed farms and gardens across the United Kingdom.

Royal Horticultural Society
The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK's leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. Our goal is to help people share a passion for plants, to encourage excellence in horticulture and inspire all those with an interest in gardening.

Royal Horticultural Society
The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK's leading gardening charity dedicated to advancing horticulture and promoting good gardening. Our goal is to help people share a passion for plants, to encourage excellence in horticulture and inspire all those with an interest in gardening.

Scottish Allotments and Gardens Society
SAGS works for allotment sites and plot holders throughout Scotland to: - Protect sites by networking among allotment associations - campaigning nationally and locally - raising awareness of the planning process and new legislation etc.

Butterworths Organic Nursery
Our small nursery is set amongst 300 acres of broad-leaved woodland on the banks of the River Lugar, 10 miles inland from Ayr. We are 300 feet above sea-level and somewhat frost-prone. Our aims are to encourage: 1) The planting of suitable varieties, historic and modern, of fruit trees in more difficult parts of Britain, i.e. the North, West and higher altitudes. 2) Organic and biodynamic production. 3) The conservation of historic varieties, especially some of the 40 Scottish apple varieties.

Orange Pippin - the comprehensive resource for apples and orchards
Orange Pippin is collaborating with the Home Orchard Society to build an international database of apple trees! If you have an apple tree growing in your garden, please tell us about it and share details with other apple enthusiasts around the world. Does it grow well or badly? What sort of crops do you get? Do you prune it? It does not have to be a rare variety - even if it is a common Golden Delicious it is still interesting to see where it is being grown, and how well it grows.

Sustainable Energy - Without the hot air
Site where you can read, or download free, in PDF format, David MacKay's groundbreaking book.

What’s this book about?

"I’m concerned about cutting UK emissions of twaddle – twaddle about sustainable energy. Everyone says getting off fossil fuels is important, and we’re all encouraged to “make a difference,” but many of the things that allegedly make a difference don’t add up. This is a straight-talking book about the numbers. The aim is to guide the reader around the claptrap to actions that really make a difference and to policies that add up."