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Growing Plants for Pollinators
Transforming gardens into a haven for pollinators and beneficial insects has topped the gardening agenda in recent years. Climate change, habitat loss and pesticide use have all been blamed for...
Growing Plants for Pollinators
Transforming gardens into a haven for pollinators and beneficial insects has topped the gardening agenda in recent years. Climate change, habitat loss and pesticide use have all been blamed for...
How to Direct Sow
What is direct sowing and why is it worth trying? While seeds of some popular plants are best started under glass or on a window sill – in pots...
How to Direct Sow
What is direct sowing and why is it worth trying? While seeds of some popular plants are best started under glass or on a window sill – in pots...
Seeds to Sow with Children
Helping children to grow green fingers can kindle a hobby that lasts a lifetime. In a world that’s dominated by smartphones and computer screens, gardening holds the key to sparking...
Seeds to Sow with Children
Helping children to grow green fingers can kindle a hobby that lasts a lifetime. In a world that’s dominated by smartphones and computer screens, gardening holds the key to sparking...
What is a Biennial?
Biennials are easy-to-grow plants that grace gardens for two years. In the first year, after sowing, they develop into young plants and put down healthy root systems, before bursting into...
What is a Biennial?
Biennials are easy-to-grow plants that grace gardens for two years. In the first year, after sowing, they develop into young plants and put down healthy root systems, before bursting into...
What is a perennial?
Many of the most popular garden plants we enjoy growing are often described online, in books or on their labels as being ‘herbaceous’ or ‘woody’, ‘deciduous’ or ‘evergreen’. Then there...
What is a perennial?
Many of the most popular garden plants we enjoy growing are often described online, in books or on their labels as being ‘herbaceous’ or ‘woody’, ‘deciduous’ or ‘evergreen’. Then there...
How to Grow Tomatoes
Sweet, juicy and bursting with flavour – it’s easy to see why tomatoes are the UK’s favourite home-grown crop. Tomatoes are among the easiest of edibles, rewarding gardeners with hundreds...
How to Grow Tomatoes
Sweet, juicy and bursting with flavour – it’s easy to see why tomatoes are the UK’s favourite home-grown crop. Tomatoes are among the easiest of edibles, rewarding gardeners with hundreds...