Author: GardenAdvice

How to deal with heavy clay soil in the garden. One option is to dig it out and replace the soil,or you can dig in sharp or grit sand from a builder merchant and...

Can you grow Jicama in the UK? The answer is yes as long as we get a long season which we have done over the last few years. You will need to start the...

Because of disease or simple old age over the next 5 years as many as 750,000 leylandii(Cupressocyparis Leylandii)hedges will need to be replaced in the UK. With climate change and disease it will not...

The best way to improve most garden soils is to spread organic matter on top of the soil and allow the worms to drag it into the soil.Whereas the worms eat the organic matter...

Climbing Rose suggestions for rose arches and rope swags: Rosa Golden Showers. Rosa “Gloire De Dijon”. Rosa Crown Princess Margareta. Roas Gertrude Jekyll.

Question: 1) Should I chop up the vegetable scraps before throwing on the compost pile? Ideally you should break up the vegetable scraps before composting them, this will help the quicker breakdown. 2) What...

Having Clover and Moss in your lawn both tend to be linked to another problem affecting the lawn,which more often than not is related to the soil’s health.Whereas the pH of the soil is...

Most lawns will recover after a hot summer with little or no water,but there are several tasks you can carry out that will help them to recover much faster in the autumn. The main...

Holly is one of those handy shrubs that can be pruned to bare stems,and it will produce new shoots from dormant buds.The best time to do some serious pruning of your holly is in...

Suitable hedge to slow run away cars.We suggest using yew as a suitable hedge to slow run away cars.Ideally using yew planted three to the metre. Also you could build a fence in the...