December Edition: Grow your Christmas dinner vegetables

Time to Harvest your Christmas Dinner Vegetables Harvest your leeks a week or so befor...

October & November Edition: Grow your Christmas dinner vegetables

Time to chack on your Christmas Dinner vegetables.  October Gardening Jobs Stake ...

The essential Guide to Winter Pruning for Trees

Why do trees and plants need to be pruned?

One of the main reasons for pruning trees and plants is to stimulate growth as trees produce more abundantly and grow vigorously after a winter trim. Removing dead, damaged or diseased branches encourages tree health and growth as energy will no longer be wasted on these branches but instead go to the healthy ones. Pruning before any new growth starts in spring enables the plant to put its energy towards producing new, healthy growth when the warmer temperatures arrive. It encourages branching low down, where appropriate, and the formation of a strong growth framework. 

December Planting: Fruit and vegetables to plant in December

  Even in the depth of winter it is possible to keep growing and sowing. December is a...

Pippa Greenwood what to plant in January

This is the first of a series of monthly planting blogs that I will be producing over the year. So, if you want to get growing all year long then follow along and I will provide gardening inspiration each month. We start with winter gardening and the planting for January is broad beans, carrots and salad leaves.  

December Garden Checklist: what to do in the garden in December

Gardening through winter can seem like a daunting prospect but any sunny days can be great opportunities to catch up on jobs in the garden.

We have put together an essential December garden checklist to help keep you gardening through the winter including garden maintenance, pruning clearing up jobs, winter crops and what to sow indoors.