Winter colour in pots and containers
October is a great time to create some winter and spring colour for your garden using pots and containers. It’s a great way to add some colour during the darker months of the year...
Karen's Garden Notes
How to plant fruit trees this autumn for training next summer
Although you can buy ready-trained fruit trees trained as fan or espalier or fan trained trees it’s often a good idea and more cost-effective to buy bare-rooted plants in the autumn and train them...
Using a Electric Windowsill Propagator
As your GardenAdvice MyGardenTeam service gardener has no doubt told you, to grow your own shrubs and perennial plants from cuttings is easy, which if true is you have several years of experience taking...
How to care for acid loving plants
Acid soil loving plants care As a general rule acid ( soil conditions ) loving plants such as acer, camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias have evolved to grow on forest floors, a general indication...
Creating a compost heap and how to compost
The best compost heaps the GardenAdvice Team have found over the years has been home made ones created with old builder pallets. One as the base and three secured around the edges using tree...
Pricking out seedlings
Pricking out plant seedlings.Once the seeds you have sown have germinated and have grown to a size you can handle they will need to be transferred into individual pots or containers. This is called...
Tulips – what to do as they die back
As your tulips finish flowering – now they have died back all the energy will have returned to the bulbs and formed next years flower so they can now be cut back. If they...
Digging over old lawn
The lawn area – now the grass under the sheeting is dead we need to dig over the area. To dig an area such as yours remove the sheeting dig a trench across the...
Sowing seeds – vegetable and flower seeds
Seeds in Seed Trays Before sowing any seeds into the trays, give the trays a good wash, if they have been used before. There is no sense in transferring last season’s diseases over to...
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...