Category: Gardening Notes

Gardening notes for My Garden Team service on my garden. Gardening advice and tips

Composting your garden leaves in the autumn

Raking up the leaves in your garden is an annual task that, with some planning, can create excellent compost—especially if you have acid-loving plants. Turning fallen leaves into compost not only recycles valuable nutrients...

Box caterpillar and box blight

Box caterpillar and box blight can look the same from the point of view of the physical damage you see on the plants. With the damage caused by the caterpillars you will see cobwebs...

Concept plan for woodland garden

Click here to download PDF Possible plant to use in woodland concept garden • Wood anemones. • Primroses. • Red campion. • Foxgloves. • Erythroniums. • Sweet woodruff. • Wood sage. • Ferns. •...

Starting garden notes

Feeding your plants  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...