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Pruning Roses: A Complete Guide for Beautiful Blooms

Pruning Roses: A Complete Guide for Beautiful Blooms

Between later winter and early Spring is a right time to prune roses.  Read on to discover how to prune roses and what garden pests and diseases to look out...
Sarah Talbot
Taking a cutting to propagate new plants

What is Plant Propagation and how can it save you money...

  Propagation is the process of increasing the population or number of plants. There are 4 main methods of plant propagation.  The most common of which is taking cuttings.  Learn...
Sarah Talbot
Growing from Kitchen Scraps - more free plants!

Growing from Kitchen Scraps - more free plants!

  In terms of total mass, fresh fruits and veg account for the largest food waste at a consumer level which significantly impacts climate change. Did you know that instead...
Nicola Wallis
3 Vegetable Plants to Always Plant Together - Three Sister's Planting

3 Vegetable Plants to Always Plant Together - Three Sister's Planting

What is the Three Sisters Planting Method? The Three Sisters Planting Method is an ancient practice dating back to almost three hundred years ago. Native American tribes such as the...
Sarah Talbot
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A step by step guide to growing potatoes in containers

Can you grow potatoes in containers? It is super easy to grow potatoes in containers, easier than growing in the ground. Find out about the different seed potatoes, which potato planter to...
Nicola Wallis
Choosing the Right Rootrainer

Choosing the Right Rootrainer

What are Rootrainers? Rootrainers are planting cells that have been used by professional growers for decades. Their three main advantages are: Plant roots are Air Pruned resulting in stronger healthier...
Sarah Talbot
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
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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. But generally colour is a...
Sarah Talbot
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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

These are dormant (not actively growing) plants that have been grown in open ground, then dug up and supplied without any soil around their roots. The plants are planted during the...
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