Whether you grow fruit, vegetables or ornamental plants in your plot, you are bound to know something that makes a good garden.

Everybody knows about the role bees in pollinating crops and most people know that ladybirds eat pests such as aphids. However, what earthworms contribute to your garden’s health is less well understood, and as for the role of creepy crawlies in the soil, most gardeners’ knowledge on this topic is rather thin.

The BHU Organics Trust and the Bio-Protection Research Centre at Lincoln University has developed with Kings Seeds, an inexpensive kit for gardeners and schools to use to answer some of these questions.

This Kit will help you work out the acidity of your soil (slightly acid for potatoes, slightly alkaline for brassicas) as well as how to attract bees to your crops and ladybirds to eat your pests.

The kit contains at least 10 fascinating techniques for you to experiment with and comes with a booklet explaining how to use them as well as links on this page.

Learn so much more about growing your organic garden. We have 13 Activity pages for you to enjoy.