Happy Veganuary!
January means it’s Veganuary so we have put together a vegan garden guide to help you not just consider your diet and lifestyle but also what you do in the garden or on the allotment. Veganic gardening is about gardening without the use of not just chemicals but also no animal products either. If you take on the Veganuary [...]
DIY: Recycling the Christmas tree
We have put together some crafty ideas for recycling the Christmas tree to help you not only reuse your tree but to also make it easier for you when taking down the decorations after the 12 days of Christmas. When the festivities are over, it can sometimes be hard to find options for the Christmas tree that once stood [...]
15 garden tips for January
January’s here, the shortest day is behind us and it’s the start of another great gardening year. To help you get your garden into shape for spring, we’ve put together our top 15 gardening tips for January. Recycle your Christmas tree. If you have a garden shredder, shred the branches of your tree – the shreddings make an excellent [...]
Plant spuds in containers
Plant spuds in containers for a super-early harvest of sweet new potatoes a whole month earlier than those grown outdoors. You'll find all the kit you need in our garden centre from easy-to-store collapsible potato bags to more substantial barrel planters with special design features to make harvesting easy; plus of course the all-important seed potatoes to start off your [...]
Plant baby broad beans now
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Grow your own asparagus plants
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Gardening in February
February is a month of such hope. There are snowdrops and crocuses galore to prove spring is just around the corner, and you can risk sowing the first hardy vegetables undercover in a heated propagator to kick-start the veg growing year. Here are a few of the jobs you can be getting on with: General tasks Put up nesting boxes [...]
Keep up with the winter weeding
It’s amazing how weed seedlings keep growing even in the depths of winter! Stay indoors now and by spring they’ll have a head start on the season, setting seed before you notice they’re there and spreading into a real headache by summer. Fast-growing annual weeds like chickweed, shepherd’s purse and groundsel germinate even in the coldest months of the year [...]