Gardening tips

I’ve been gardening for most of my life. In total that’s around 60 years of gardening! During that time I’ve had the opportunity to try out many different gardening tools and [...]

To grow periwinkle plants is not difficult! They are an easy to please plant that provides effective evergreen ground cover. This results in low maintenance gardening but also is good for nature. [...]

Recommended vegetable varieties can be a very personal thing. Everyone has their favourites but maybe they haven’t tried too many others? To my mind there is every reason to try newer [...]

Autumn and winter is the perfect time of the year to plant garden trees and in this blog I want to cover fruiting trees for the small garden! Now, you might expect me to launch off into apples, [...]

Storing apples should be easy and especially if you follow a few simple rules. From time to time we enjoy a bumper harvests of tree fruits. Any year, and particularly during financially [...]

Bulb Planting Tips – my top 10! Spring-flowering bulbs should be planted from the beginning of autumn through to late December. Autumn is nature’s natural planting time and provides a [...]

How to grow figs – after reading this I hope that you’ll try it yourself! Figs are often regarded as an exotic fruit and many assume that they are difficult to grow. This is not the [...]

  Are you really starting to feed your plants now? I hope you are because this is when they have the greatest need for plant food.   Why feed your plants? So you fed your plants in [...]

What plants to buy at Easter might seem like an unnecessary question. But it’s surprising how many gardens look great around springtime but them lack colour at other times of the year. For [...]

Plants to Deter Burglars in the Garden There has been a spate of burglaries recently and the usual powered garden equipment has been the prime target. It makes sense to lock this sort of stuff up [...]