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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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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
5 common Tomato Growing Mistakes (and how to avoid them!)

5 common Tomato Growing Mistakes (and how to avoid them!)

Tomato plants are often one of the first plants you try as a child.  But despite a lifetime of growing them its easy to make some of these tomato growing...
Sarah Talbot
9 Companion Plants to Grow with Cucumber Plants (and 3 to AVOID!)

9 Companion Plants to Grow with Cucumber Plants (and 3 to AVOID!)

Companion Planting is key to successfully growing cucumber plants from seed.  In our latest blog you can discover 9 plants to plant alongside your cucumbers and 3 you should avoid.  
Sarah Talbot
How to make a wildlife pond whatever your garden size

How to make a wildlife pond whatever your garden size

You might not think you have the space for a garden pond but don't worry.  If you are short of space then you can even make a wildlife pond in...
Nicola Wallis
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5 Top Tips For Garden Companion Planting

Companion planting is where two or more crops are grown together for the benefit of one, or all. It is a must for organic gardeners or anyone who wants to...
Sarah Talbot
6 Ways to solve your Carrot growing problems

6 Ways to solve your Carrot growing problems

Carrots are one of the most popular vegetable but they aren’t always easy to grow.  Your first hurdle is the dreaded carrot fly.  Its unusual to have to think of...
Sarah Talbot
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5 Easy Ways to protect your plants from frost

Plant protection is important in winter but there are other things you can do to help reduce the impact of frost in the garden.
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