If you love gardening and want to create a beautiful area full of flowers, you may want to add a rockery area. Rockeries are great for any type of garden, big or small as you can control how large you want it to be. First you need to plan out where you want the rockery to be placed, corners tend to be a popular option, however you need the area to be exposed to an adequate... Read More
Entering your garden into your local ‘best garden competition’
There are several ways in which you can maintain and improve your gardens if you want to enter a ‘best garden competition’. Wining in a garden competition does require a lot of effort, however, and judges will without a doubt be looking for any signs of weakness. Entering your garden into a local ‘best garden competition’ is easy but the work required to win is not. So... Read More
Getting those winter garden jobs done
Winters can be harsh to our garden especially as the ice gets into the delicate plant structures and damages them completely. Maintaining your garden during those colder months can seem like a chore, however you will thank yourself once spring comes and you start using your garden to have friends and family over. It is not about pruning your flowerbed of watering your crops... Read More
Growing potatoes in a tiny garden
It doesn’t matter how small your garden is, as long as there is sunlight and space for a grow bag, you can grow potatoes. The process of growing potatoes is actually very easy: First things first, you’ll need to carefully plop a single chitted potato tuber into the bag of compost with the shoots pointing upwards, to a depth of around 12cm (5″) from the soil surface.... Read More
Potted Plants
Some people will never know the joy of owning their own gardens. Just take a minute to soak that in. For those people in the world who live in apartments, or flats or even in bed sits, will never experience the joy of walking out of their back doors, or front if you are lucky, and setting foot into their own gardens. They will not get the pleasure of seeing those colours,... Read More
Take Full Advantage of Your Plant Clippings!
Plant matter is generally thrown away in the UK. Even when you take account of the move towards recycling, doing this with your plant waste is, quite frankly, a waste. Recycling it yourself can give you a lot of valuable soil and compost material, that in turn can be reused in your garden, without the need for faffing about with your trash delivery or going to a garden centre... Read More
Tidy Gardens with a Grid Layout
Keeping a garden tidy is not always easy and there are different aspects that make it a frustrating task. You may have a garden with numerous shrubs, plants and trees and that means you have more to maintain and more leaves to pick up during autumn and winter. Some of the easiest gardens to maintain include those in a tidy, grid-like layout. These gardens can contain different... Read More