Welcome to The Heritage Hoes—a joyful rebellion against boring gardens and corporate life.
Here you’ll find historical plant tales, practical tips, honest chats, and muddy knees.
Runner Bean Trench
Runner beans go rampant in the Summer, spreading tall and wide (as I found out when I didn’t secure them properly!) and because of this they are also really greedy, hungry plants. This year on our new plot we’ve worked to give them a head start using a trenching...
Top Herbs for a Homebased Apothecary
*This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a commission. Thanks. Nature provides us with so many useful herbs that we use in cooking but more than that so many can support our health and wellbeing. But building an...
Jobs in The Kitchen Garden: January
I don’t consider myself a fair weather plotter (well maybe a little!) but there won’t be many days that I will be venturing out onto the plot in January. In reality the ground on our plot will be mostly waterlogged or frozen so even a bit of therapeutic digging is...
Preparing Your Soil For Winter
*This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something we may earn a commission. Thanks. The British winter can be tough on your garden. It is cold, unpredictable, and wet, complete with frost and potential snow, all of which can have a drastic...
Rooted in History, Growing Wild
Lovely Lavender
This is my all time favourite “herb”, although technically not a herb I’ve put it in our Herb section because it’s used so often in herby preparations! It feels right! I always have a compulsion to cut Lavender and hang it but I confess it mostly stays hung forever...