Category: Your Gardening Tasks

Autumn is a beautiful time of the year as the leaves of deciduous trees change from green to shades of red, flame and gold, colouring the landscape and garden. However all gardeners know that...

Weeding and mulching – your border needs a quick weed. After weeding apply mulch which is a clean material that stops the sunlight from reaching the weed seeds and smoothers the weeds. With your garden...

Ideally every garden needs a compost heap, whilst you can spend a lot of money on an especially made composter one of the most effective composters can be created by using 5 old builders...

With your lawn the soil test showed your soil pH on the lawn is pH 5.9 which is slightly acid. This has likely been caused over a number if years by the application of...

Late autumn and early winter is the best time for planting spring flowering bulbs such as crocus and tulips and also for planting summer flowering bulbs such as Allium The only except is snowdrop...

Late October 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...

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...

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....