Plant flowers for bats
Plant flowers for bats and win some fantastic wildlife gardening prizes in a new competition launched by the RHS in partnership with the Bat Conservation Trust and the Wildlife Trusts. Create a Bat-Friendly Garden All you have to do is plant a bat feast of insect-friendly flowers to give your local colony of bats plenty of food to enjoy, then [...]
Have a go at square foot gardening
Have a go at square foot gardening and find out just how much delicious home-grown produce you can harvest from the tiniest of spaces. Square Foot Gardening - Give it a try? When all you’ve got to work with is a single raised bed, as little as a metre square, packing variety into your patch becomes incredibly important. Divide it [...]
Jobs for August 4
It’s all too easy to hit the gardening doldrums in August, so concentrate all your efforts on keeping the display at its peak. Here’s our list of jobs to be getting on with this month. General tasks: Keep up with watering concentrating on hanging basket and container displays, plants in the greenhouse and newly-planted seedlings. Top up ponds in [...]
Hedgehogs in our gardens
Just one in four of us come across hedgehogs regularly in our gardens according to a wildlife survey from the RSPB. That’s a drop of three percent on the previous year – showing that populations of our favourite mammals are still in steep decline. The charity asked 280,000 people to keep records about wildlife they saw in the garden [...]
Pick off male cucumber flowers
Pick off male cucumber flowers once a week to avoid your cucumbers turning bitter. Most greenhouse cucumber plants produce both male and female flowers – it’s easy to tell the difference as male flowers have simple stalks while female flowers have miniature fruits forming behind the petals. To avoid a bitter tasting Cucumber, pick off male flowers once a [...]
Gardeners can prevent flooding
Gardeners can play a key role in preventing flooding after heavy rain, according to the RHS which is calling on everyone with a garden to do their bit to soak up excess rainwater. Help prevent Flooding after heavy rain Torrential rain and thunderstorms have caused flash flooding in the south-east this summer, and extreme weather events are set to become [...]