How to Care for your Apple Trees in the UK

How to Care for your Apple Trees in the UK

How to Care for Apple Trees Caring for apple trees involves regular watering, feeding, mulching, and pruning to maintain a healthy tree and encourage fruit production. Caring for New Apple...
Sarah Talbot
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...
Guy Hoogewerf
How to Harvest and Store Pumpkins

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. Whatever colour it is,...
Nicola Wallis
Haxnicks-growing tips- grow at home- how to ripen green tomatoes- how to grow tomatoes

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
Bare root plants from CANVA

A Guide To Bare Root Plants

What are bare root plants and why should gardeners choose them?  Dosci ver all you need ot know about buying and planting bare root plants here.
Guy Hoogewerf
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.  Here are five common tomato...
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 1/3 of the food we eat. Unfortunately, bee populations are declining due to habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change. Discover how and why...
Sarah Talbot
haxnicks- how to garden with no digging- no dig method of gardening- gardening with no spade

Is the 'No Dig' method of gardening right for me?

If you want to garden without the effort of digging then 'No Dig' may be for you.  Clcik through to discover more.
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