Starting Early Potatoes In This Cold Weather.
Starting early potatoes in cold weather or a cold start to the season,after placing the potatoes in egg boxes so they stand up and keeping them in a dark frost free area for a...
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Acid Loving Plants For Winter Container Colour.
A few ideas for winter colour in containers with acid soil/compost loving plants. Skimmia Japonica ‘Rubella Gaultheria Procumbens Pernettya Mucronata With some Erica carnea and Erica x Darleyensis around the base to add some...
Feed Your Garden Birds To Help With Your Aphid Problems.
How to Attract Birds to Your Garden to Control Slugs and Aphids: The Finch and Niger Seed Strategy Slugs and aphids can be persistent problems in the garden, causing damage to young plants, flowers,...
Planting Under Evergreen Trees In Dry Soil Conditions.
Planting under evergreen trees in dry soil conditions: Planting under evergreen trees presents a few problems,firstly the conditions are normally quite dry because of the tree and secondly the soil under most evergreen trees...
Re-Potting Rhododendron And Azaleas.
Azalea and Rhododendron they should be ideally to pruned and re-potted once they have flowered so now would be a good time. Both plants naturally grow on a forest floor and every year receive...
White Ash Substance In Lawn.
The white ash like substance often found in older lawns is a type of fungus feeding on the thatch layer in the grass.The thatch is a layer of dead roots and grass blades which...
Protect Your Cordylines.
Cordylines are at home in the garden and prefer regular water for optimum growth but once established can tolerate dry spells and are remarkably good at rejuvenation.Despite this during the winter season where lots...
