Category: Head Gardener

Question Any advice on sowing vegetable seeds outdoors. Answer Seed sowing for vegetables in open ground:traditionally seeds have always been sown in rows.This allows for the plants to be weeded manually with the use...

Moving a Cordyline in an ideal world before moving a big plant the autumn before you should dig a trench around the plant and back fill with good compost and then in the following...

Sowing orchid seed your best bet is to surface sow the seed, preferably as soon as it is ripe, in a bright position and do not allow the compost to dry out.The seed of...

Applying wood ash to your veg patch now is an ideal time to do it before you begin planting up proper.Wood ash is the equivalent of liming the soil so would be good for...

Coffee plant your best bet to stop it going brown at the edges is to mist it with warm lime free water (so as to prevent leaf staining). It sounds like it has been...

Dicksonia I think your best bet now is to put it in the coolest room in the house and put it on a pebble tray to increase the humidity around it.The tray needs to...

Raised beds for general planting are best filled with half loam soil and then topped off with John Innes number 3 mixed with half spent mushroom compost and a bucketful of well rotted manure...

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Put some drainage in the bottom of the barrel like broken up pots,stones or even pieces of broken up polystyrene – this ensures good drainage when you water. Next take some potting compost and...