15 Yellow Flowers for the Autumn Equinox
Thought I’d suggest 15 yellow flowers for the Autumn Equinox to celebrate the sun and brighten up your garden borders
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Compost & Soil
Bokashi Composting
Bokashi Composting is possibly totally new to you. Perhaps you’ve heard it mentioned and wonder whether it is a way
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What are Hybrid Tea Roses?
What are hybrid tea roses? You may well ask 😉 And the simple answer is that they are most people’s idea
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Using Coffee Grounds in Your Garden
You’ve read the ‘coffee grounds are magic’ but also ‘coffee grounds are rubbish’. So what is the reality of using
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Lasagna Gardening – Growing Methods for Gardeners
Lasagna gardening is not a ‘How to grow Lasagne in Your Garden’ blog! It’s about a method of gardening which
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Composting – Pest Problems and Prevention
Some composting pest problems are major, some are minor. It seems to be that all gardeners have issues with their composting
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How Not to Garden Organically
How Not to Garden Organically is a bit of a teaser, a tongue in cheek blog. There’s so much out
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Making Liquid Fertiliser from Weeds
Making liquid fertiliser from weeds is a great way to re-use those pesky plants that grow where they’re not wanted.
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What are Green Manures? Your Kitchen Garden in September
Green manures are a means of improving and protecting the soil over winter by using living plants rather spreading a
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Soil Health and Your Garden
We all know that soil health is important in our gardens, don’t we? So why is it that there are
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7 Ways to use Wood Ash in Your Garden
As well as 7 ways to use wood ash in your garden, we’ll look at what wood ash is, the
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Soil – the plant food in your garden
The soil in your garden is probably the most important factor in how well your plants will grow well –
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Perlite or Vermiculite – which is best?
Perlite or vermiculite – which is best? There you are, standing in the garden centre or gazing at an online
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Different Composting Methods
There are many different composting methods, and I thought a reminder might prove helpful. Some types are going to be
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Earthworms – Nature’s Plough and Soil Hero
Earthworms are sometimes called “nature’s plough” as they burrow through and turning over the soil in our gardens and fields.
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Tips for Gardening on Chalk Soil
Tips for gardening on chalk soil is here to help you if you have stony, chalky earth in your garden.
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Tips for Gardening on Clay Soil
Gardening on clay soil has both advantages and disadvantages. But clay soil gardens have the potential to be one of
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How to Grow Vegan Herbs
Why vegan herbs specifically? Because I felt that there was a bit of a gap between the buying vegan and
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Trench Composting – Sustainable Gardening
This is a method of Composting which arguably also comes under the category of Growing Methods for Gardeners. As a
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Making Leaf Compost
Are you faced with a lawn and a driveway covered with leaves? Does your heart sink at the thought of
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Salad Blue Potatoes Potting Compost Comparison
Salad Blue Potatoes are a heritage variety which I haven’t grown for too many years to mention! I picked up
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Compostable Packaging – Can You Compost it in the Garden?
What is Compostable Packaging? This is a topical subject and changing quite rapidly. We’re getting into the habit of carrying
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Go Wild for Worms in Your Garden
Wild for Worms is a celebration and recognition of the garden worm. In this year’s (2018) Wild About Gardens Week
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What is Organic Gardening?
What is Organic Gardening? At the beginning of Organic September, a month-long celebration of organic food, seems a good time
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How to Make Compost
How to Make Compost. It should be a simple matter, and it is, really. But sometimes it goes horribly wrong. This blog is
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Peat free compost – are you still confused?
Peat free compost is not a new trend in the gardening world. However, there are developments and new products which
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Soil Preparation – Double Digging
Soil preparation is a term which covers all aspects of getting the soil in your garden ready for your plants.
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Compost – the smell of a successful Garden
Clay soil, sandy soil, whatever the soil in your garden, it can be improved by adding compost, aka organic matter.
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Your Garden in Winter – Digging
January is the digging month, or so the saying goes. But why has it got that reputation? Why do we
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Leaf Compost
Autumn – or Fall as the Americans call it; a very descriptive name for a season epitomised by leaves falling
Composting – a load of rubbish?
Composting – Did you know that the first organised landfill was happening c5000 years ago in Crete? Now we’re running
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