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Bonfires and the law: what are the rules?
Its that time of year when the garden needs a good tidy. The leaves are beginning to fall from the trees. Plus most summer vegetable have been harvested and its...
Get your Garden Winter Ready - 5 Ways to Protect your Soil
So, your harvest is in and your gardening is done for the year. You are ready to sit back and relax until it all starts again in Spring. But hold...
Pippa Greenwood gardening advice for August
Here is my gardening advice for August. At the moment my number one vegetable garden task is looking out for blight attacking my potatoes and tomatoes. Blight Blight is really hitting...
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...
Pippa Greenwood Gardening advice for July
Welcome to my gardening advice for July. We are going to start with some good news. Warmer, drier weather will mean some good growing conditions but unfortunately (now the bad news)...
10 Tomato Growing Tips for growing bigger juicier tomatoes
10 top gardening tips for tomato growing - find out what tomato plants need from where and where not to plant them right through to how to feed, water and...
Garden Maypole Decorative Plant Support
hat is the Garden Maypole Plant Support: This Haxnicks Garden Maypole Plant Support is a versatile and elegant way of growing climbing plants and flowers in your garden. Where can...
What is Peat & why is the UK changing to peat free compost?
Peat is best! Gardeners have relied on it for years - it retains both moisture and air and is pretty much free of pests and diseases. This gives a consistent...
5 Easiest Vegetables to Grow in pots & containers
Growing Vegetables in Pots When you first start gardening you need some quick growing vegetables to give you some quick, tasty wins. So look no further for the 5 easiest...
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...
How to Protect Carrots from Carrot Fly
Carrot fly is a bug which lays their eggs in the soil around carrots. The adult carrot fly is approximately 9mm long. It is a slender, metallic, greenish-black fly with...
How to get rid of Ground Elder
A step by step guide to clearing Ground Elder. For a serious invasion of ground elder you will need time, patience and maybe lots of black polythene! Find out the best...