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5 Ways to Extend your Growing Season (and grow more in your garden)
How to Extend your Growing Season What you plant and where you plant it is key to getting a longer season. So here are our top 5 tips for how...
October & November Edition: Grow your Christmas dinner vegetables
Time to chack on your Christmas Dinner vegetables. October Gardening Jobs Stake Brussels sprouts as they can become top-heavy. Drive a sturdy stake into the ground and tie each plant...
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...
How to grow your own organic fruit orchard
An orchard gives you a variety of your own organic fruit which can include a variety of that isn’t readily available in shops as they are regarded unsuitable for mass...
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 matter...
Product Bite: Easy Fleece Jackets easy to use plant protection
Easy Fleece Jackets are Instant winter protection for large, exotic and tender container plants, as well as any non-hardy plants, to help protect them from harsh weather whilst allowing air, moisture, and...
Pippa Greenwood: Gardening Tips for November
Pippa Greenwood offers her gardening tips for November. From how to deal with garden pests still active following the warm autumn. To where to find bare root fruit trees like...
How to Make leaf mould (or free compost!)
Leaf mould compost is also known as Gardeners Gold and is an amazing soil conditioner. It is that glorious stuff you find on forest floors created from all the decaying...
How to Plant a Hedge
Hedges are something you might want to think about before you put your gardening feet up for the year. Everyone should have hedge ambitions – they can work whatever your...
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...
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...