Installing water butts
Installing a few water butts around your house on your roof drainage down pipes is a great idea now especially as the climate is changing and we have long periods without rain, then period...
Category: Your Gardening Tasks
Your Gardening Tasks
Hardwood cutting for shrubs for the garden
With the front garden we have been thinking you could grow some shrubs from hardwood cuttings Here is a list to some suitable shrubs Abelia,Deutzia,Buddleja (butterfly bush),Cornus (dogwood),Forsythia,Philadelphus (mock orange)Ribes (flowering currant),Rosa (rose), SymphoricarposViburnums.Sambucus Racemosa...
Creating an annual summer flower border
Creating an annual border is one of the most rewarding projects in gardening, within a few short months you can create a blaze of colour in your garden. Its quite a lot of work...
Brambles and bindweed – Weedkiller spot treatments
Weeds such as the brambles, bindweed growing in your shrubs, early spring is a good time to treat them with Roundup weed killer either in the gel form or with a small hand sprayer....
Now is the time to feed your garden
Late January into February is the best time to feed you plants with some Growmore fertilizer. The last of the heavy winter rains will wash the nutrients into the soil ready for the plants...