Product Bite: Extra Thick Fleece Blanket

Product Bite: Extra Thick Fleece Blanket

  What are Fleece Blankets? The Haxnicks Extra-Thick Fleece Blanket is part of our range of durable and reusable plant protection fabrics that can be put in place in a...
Guy Hoogewerf
Planting seeds in Autumn - what you can plant from October onward.

Planting seeds in Autumn - what you can plant from October onward.

Did you know that you could plant seeds in the autumn? Most won't do much over winter but get your timing right and you will have much earlier fruit, vegetables...
Sarah Talbot
Garden bonfire filling whole frame

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 and summer vegetables have been harvested and need to be disposed of....
Sarah Talbot
Haxnicks digging spade in the soil

Get your Garden Winter Ready - 5 Ways to Protect your Soil

Your gardening is done for the year. But your soil has taken a battering and as temperatures drop and soil activity slows it will need attention. Find out how to...
Sarah Talbot
Pippa Greenwood expert gardening advice August

Pippa Greenwood gardening advice for August

Gardening expert Pippa Greenwood shares her gardening tips for August.  Click to learn more.
Sarah Talbot
Beginners Guide to growing Cherry Trees

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 - 500 Sweet Cherries and 500 Sour Cherries (aka Tart or...
Sarah Talbot
Pippa Greenwood Gardening advice for July

Pippa Greenwood Gardening advice for July

Gardening expert Pippa Greenwood gives her gardening advice for July - click through to learn more
Sarah Talbot
Bigger juicier home grown tomatoes

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...
Sarah Talbot
Garden Maypole Decorative Plant Support

Garden Maypole Decorative Plant Support

Plant supports can be decorative and easy to use.  Discover the Garden Maypole and get yourself a wigwam or beans or sweetpeas to turn your climbing plants into a statement...
Nicola Wallis
Peat cutting before the ban on peat

What is Peat & why did the UK changing to peat free compost?

Peat used to be a staple in the garden shed but since the Government stepped in to ban it peat-free alternatives are taking over.  However, not all peat-free composts are...
Sarah Talbot
5 Easiest Vegetables to Grow in pots & containers

5 Easiest Vegetables to Grow in pots & containers

How to start a container garden - discover what container gardneing is and how you can start growing your own food in the smallest of spaces, even if you have...
Sarah Talbot
Haxnicks gardening tips growing veg seed germination

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...
Sarah Talbot