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Jun 10, 20205 min read

6 Easy Ways To Tell If Your Plants Need Watering

Watering your plants correctly is one of the most important factors in keeping them healthy. We frequently get asked how to know when a...

Jun 4, 20204 min read

Reopening Our Paddington Farm!

This week the lockdown restrictions in the UK were eased and with that we decided to reopen our rooftop vertical farm in Paddington

May 28, 20206 min read

How to Keep Supermarket Herbs Alive: 5 Top Tips

Remember to choose healthy plants, repot them into fresh potting mix in larger pots, split up overcrowded plants, water them regularly and h

May 20, 20206 min read

How To Grow Plants In A Water Bottle!

Learn how to grow plants in a water bottle! This simple hydroponic system only takes 10 minutes to make.

May 13, 20207 min read

10 Plants You Can Regrow From Kitchen Scraps

This article is going to show you how to regrow 10+ plants from food scraps. It's great because you can grow fresh new leaves or even...

May 7, 20205 min read

The future of the office is green!

it’s not just about making offices green, it’s about adapting office culture to reflect the issues that are important to the modern employee

May 6, 20207 min read

How to build your own hydroponic system: a beginners guide

Interested in hydroponics but don’t know where to start? Learn how to build your own easy hydroponic system with this beginners guide

Apr 22, 20206 min read

7 Key Advantages of Vertical, Hydroponic Farming

What if you were told that you can grow nutritious leafy greens and fruits faster, with higher yields, using 5-10% of the water and a fracti

Apr 21, 20204 min read

Why we believe vertical, urban farming can help save the planet!

At Square Mile Farms, we believe that urban farming can play an important role in building a sustainable food system. Not only can we reduce

Apr 16, 20206 min read

An Introduction to Propagation

In this blog we’ll be looking at the different ways that plants are propagated. Propagation is important for home growers to understand beca