Notes on autumn lawn care
Autumn lawn renovation – this year 2021 it looks as though late September early October is going to be the ideal time for autumn lawn renovation. At this time the soil should still be...
Category: Your Gardening Tasks
Your Gardening Tasks
Mulching to reduce weeding.
Mulching to reduce weeds and maintain moisture levels One of the keys to creating a low maintenance gardening is to use mulches to suppress the weeds and reduce the need for weeding. In areas that...
Feeding your plants general advice
Feeding your plants Feeding with low nitrates and high nitrate feeds – this is the main difference between plant foods. High nitrate feeds creating lots of green stems and leaves and growth in general...
Difficult weeds – mainly the ground elder on the front of house
Difficult Weeds – Ground elder on the front of the house. Its likely to be most effective to cover the ground elder with landscape sheeting cover with bark mulch and then treat the ground...
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...