There are many greenhouses on the market in the United Kingdom but there are four independent greenh...
15th February 2018 • Read More »An email reminder from Nematodes Direct and the purchase of a discounted hose-end nematode applicato...
19th September 2018 • Read More »The next month is the time to get on with sowing seeds if you want to extend the growing season with...
6th August 2018 • Read More »There are many greenhouses on the market in the United Kingdom but there are four independent greenh...
15th February 2018 • Read More »Bulbs can be naturalised in grass or in borders to make them look like wild flowers. The usual thing...
10th April 2016 • Read More »There’s more to your spring garden than daffodils, crocuses and tulips. Yet so embedded are these ...
6th March 2016 • Read More »Now that it is feeling more and more like spring, I decided the moment had arrived to cut the old f...
13th March 2015 • Read More »I’ve been taking lots of cuttings of half hardy plants over the last couple of weeks – the warm...
29th September 2014 • Read More »Unless you diligently dead-head your annuals you'll likely find an abundance of seed heads replacing...
20th July 2014 • Read More »High winds across the country last night will have seen a number of cheap greenhouses disappearing i...
13th February 2014 • Read More »Gardeners are thoughtful and careful planners. What to plant next, where to plant, when to plant for...
2nd February 2014 • Read More »Dark, damp, depressing, just the weather to escape into the greenhouse. Not got a greenhouse then ge...
17th January 2014 • Read More »It may be miserably, cold and wet out in the garden but now is exactly the right time to be thinking...
13th January 2014 • Read More »When to plant tulips There's some comfort in knowing that Fergus Garrett, of Great Dixt...
20th October 2012 • Read More »My ten year old myrtle tree succumbed to the heavy snow in the winter with two of its three branche...
3rd April 2012 • Read More »Now I know that it's only the south and the east of the country that is short of water, but mulc...
25th March 2012 • Read More »My autumn-sown sweetpeas always do really well, but inevitably they start to wind down just at the ...
16th March 2012 • Read More »I always think that setting potatoes to chit is a bit like putting eggs in an incubator – they j...
28th February 2012 • Read More »I’m not sure how appropriate they will be for my seaside garden, but for those at higher altitude,...
27th January 2012 • Read More »A timely packet arrived from Unwins Seeds this morning with a selection of their Gro-Sure range of...
26th September 2011 • Read More »The Balcony Gardener has some modestly priced gardening gifts that would make ideal stocking fille...
12th December 2010 • Read More »With the sudden onslaught of cold weather I enlisted help and got most of my tender plants into th...
3rd November 2010 • Read More »I’ve been out in the garden collecting seeds that are ripe and ready to harvest. The cornflowe...
4th October 2010 • Read More »Birds need water as well as food in freezing weather – pour a kettle of hot water into any birdb...
14th January 2010 • Read More »Tulip Fever - It’s the time of year when I sit down with my friend Jo and we get totally carried a...
14th September 2009 • Read More »It’s amazing how rapidly a glut obliterates memories of how we welcomed that first handful of runn...
2nd September 2009 • Read More »Two days of proper rain may have blighted the Bank Holiday, but the garden loves it. A friend rang m...
26th May 2009 • Read More »Nature’s Calendar Many years ago a French gardener told me that the leaf buds of the mulberry will...
7th May 2009 • Read More »Over the past week we have had near perfect weather – warm sunny days and a couple of nights when ...
16th April 2009 • Read More »What a difference the light evenings make. From now on the garden is no longer a weekend affair, I�...
4th April 2009 • Read More »Warm sunshine – at last! I spent all last weekend in the garden, revelling in the real signs of sp...
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