Category: Your Gardening Tasks

Although a little hard work is involved, these fallen leaves are valuable; they can be composted, making a rich organic mulch and soil improver, given a little time and encouragement. Compost created from fallen...

As we get into autumn now is the time to plant some spring bulbs Iris reticulata’Early season flowering bulb planted in the ground or in pots with John Inness compost Crocus bulbsEarly season flowering...

The first stage is to pick a photinia plant with a straight main stem. Tie the stem to a cane Next remove all the side shoots to the required height of the underside of...

Whilst the soil in your vegetable garden is fine its a bit sandy and might be why the potatoes failed this year. Plus we need to add some lobworms. Organic matter will be from...

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....

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...