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Product Bite: Leaf Picker - the easy way to collect autumn leaves

Product Bite: Leaf Picker - the easy way to collect autumn leaves

The Hanicks Leaf Picker is a new fast and efficient way to tackle the task of leaf collection in your garden. It has a clever pick up and discard mechanism...
Nicola Wallis
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How to Harvest and Store Pumpkins

What colour is a ripe pumpkin? The answer is usually orange but they can come in shades or grey, blue or white and some are even stripey. But generally colour is a...
Sarah Talbot
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Ripening tomatoes - 5 Ways to Ripen Green Tomatoes

Ripening tomatoes is something that most people growing tomatoes end up doing. Due to our climate it is not at all unusual to be left with tomatoes that haven't ripened...
Sarah Talbot
A Guide To Bare Root Plants

A Guide To Bare Root Plants

These are dormant (not actively growing) plants that have been grown in open ground, then dug up and supplied without any soil around their roots. The plants are planted during the...
Nicola Wallis
5 More ways - Extend your growing season

5 More ways - Extend your growing season

Here are 5 more gardening tips to help you extend the growing season in your vegetable garden.  So, if the weather has left you feeling like you have had a...
Sarah Talbot
What Garden Tools Do I Need to Start a Vegetable Garden?

What Garden Tools Do I Need to Start a Vegetable Garden?

Here are the basic garden tools that you need to start your own vegetable garden.  We have taken 5 of the most popular vegetables grown in UK gardens and outlined...
Sarah Talbot
5 Tomato Growing Issues to Look Out For in a Wet Summer

5 Tomato Growing Issues to Look Out For in a Wet Summer

Growing tomatoes can be one of the most rewarding experiences in the garden, but a wet summer can play havoc with a successful tomato crop.  Discover the problems you could...
Sarah Talbot
Sustainable watering: How to Conserve Water in the Vegetable Garden

Sustainable watering: How to Conserve Water in the Vegetable Garden

Here is your road map to dealing with a hose pipe ban. Discover how to water your vegetable garden in a sustainable way.  To conserve water but still grow amazing...
Sarah Talbot
How to grow green manure to improve soil and prevent erosion

How to Grow Green Manure For Better Soil

Gren manure are crops that you sow in order to enrich the soil and prevent soil erosion.  So, they grow and then rather than harvesting, you dig them back into the...
Sarah Talbot
The 'How and Why' of Attracting more bees to our Vegetable Gardens

The 'How and Why' of Attracting more bees to our Vegetable Gardens

Bees are essential pollinators, responsible for about one-third of the food we eat. Unfortunately, bee populations are declining due to habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change. Discover how and why...
Sarah Talbot
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3 Vegetable Plants to Always Plant Together - Three Sister's Planting

What is the Three Sisters Planting Method? The Three Sisters Planting Method is an ancient practice dating back to almost three hundred years ago. Native American tribes such as the...
Nicola Wallis
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Is the 'No Dig' method of gardening right for me?

What is No Dig? Put simply ‘No dig’ is exactly that - a means of gardening without digging over the plot each year. It is a a gardening method that...
Sarah Talbot