Samantha's Garden Notes

Building a simple compost heap

One of the first jobs when creating a vegetable garden is to create a compost heap. You can buy one but the GardenAdvice team have found over the years that a simple compost heap...

Plants requested

Onion Strawberry Blueberry  Tomato  Potato Broccoli Spinach Cabbage Sweet Potato Parsnip Herb caraway Edible flowers calendula etc Ginger  strawberry seeds, but bare roots, blueberries Corn Jerusalem Atichoke BlackBerry Elderberry Various flowers that might be...

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...

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...