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Tomato Blight & how to tell if Sweetcorn is ripe - September gardening tips from Pippa Greenwood
Gardening expert Pippa Greenwood helps with Autumn gardening tips including how to discover if your sweetcorn is ripe, what to do about Tomato Blight and what vegetables you can plant...
Beginners Guide to growing Cherry Trees
Cherry trees are arguably the prettiest of spring blossom trees. There are around a thousand varieties of cherry tree - five hundred Sweet Cherries and five hundred Sour Cherries (also...
Fresh Peas how to grow, care for and harvest
How to grow peas at home, Right from sowing to harvesting including how to support your growing pea crop.
Tips and Tricks: Seed Germination the basics
Gardening tips and tricks: seed growing. Want improve your seed germination success rate? Learn about the Germination Triangle and how to balance it to get a higher germination rate when...
Winter Vegetable Garden - how and when to plant winter veg
Once the main growing season is nearly over you may be wondering if this is it for the year. The answer is no there are plenty of veggies you can...
Pippa Greenwood: Haxnicks Gardening Tips for September
I can't believe August is over already but here are my Gardening tips for September. Firstly, keep on picking peas and beans. Like their ornamental relative the sweetpea, they really...
How to Grow Soft Fruits and perfect Currants
Growing Currants If you’ve got enough space to dedicate an area to growing soft fruit it is always worth growing currants. Black, Red and White varieties are all easy to...
How to Grow the best Salad Leaves
Growing Salad Leaves Growing your own salad leaves is SO easy and a great way to start if you want to grow your own food. The best thing about salad...
Potato growing in the garden - a step by step guide
About the Potato Potatoes can be so cheap to buy, so why bother to grow your own? One reason is taste - the chance to get tasty tatties that are...