Kitchen Garden Best Buy and Top Picks

Here are our favourite gardening products for July, chosen for their quality, effectiveness and value for money BEST BUY SALAD PLANTER This salad planter will accommodate 37 litres of compost for growing a wide range of vegetable crops. Feeder mats pull water from the reservoir, keeping the compost suitably moist. Dimensions: 55x55x25cm depth (22x22x10in). GREENHOUSE SENSATIONwww.greenhousesensation.co.ukTEL: 0845 602 3774PRODUCT CODE:…

Share your patch with wildlife and you’ll both reap the benefits

We are all aware of the increasing need to incorporate areas for wildlife in our gardens and green spaces for the greater good and this needn’t be a choice between having a wild, nettle laden area or maintained lawns and borders. You can provide for wildlife in all ways including vegetable patches as the benefit gardeners can gain from sharing…
Poultry palaces: exactly what makes ideal housing for hens and ducks?

Poultry palaces: exactly what makes ideal housing for hens and ducks?

Exactly what makes ideal housing for hens and ducks? Choosing the wrong poultry house can prove to be a costly mistake, not to mention perilous for your flocks’ health, whereas getting it right can provide your birds with a lifelong home. Jim Vyse, of Jim Vyse Arks, producer of high quality poultry housing for nearly two decades, offers this advice;…
Join the Raised Bed Revolution

Join the Raised Bed Revolution

Raised beds are the answer to many gardeners’ problems making gardening easier, accessible, more productive and available to all. Gardening Works Wooden Raised Beds are available in different sizes and heights making them user friendly for children, the elderly and the disabled who can garden at a height that is perfect for their needs, 75cm high disability raised beds and…

Kitchen Garden Best Buy and Top Picks

Here are our favourite gardening products for June, chosen for their quality, effectiveness and value for money BEST BUY SLUG X – SLUG TRAP Made from recycled polypropylene, this Slug X trap attracts slug and snails with beer as bait. It has three ‘drowning’ wells and is portable – it does not need to be semi-buried. GARDENING NATURALLYwww.gardening-naturally.comTEL: 01285 760505PRODUCT…

Say Goodbye To Hay Fever

With summer around the corner, most gardeners look forward to spending more time in the garden, but it’s not much fun if you have hay fever! HayMax organic allergen barrier balms are perfect as they’re drug-free and non-drowsy. They work by trapping pollen before it gets in the body, keeping the sufferer below their trigger level for longer. Research shows…

Plants and bees – a 100 million-year-old love affair…

All gardeners love and appreciate the flowers in their gardens… …but few realise that almost all plants, shrubs and trees, are entirely dependent on pollinating insects for their ability to reproduce and thrive. In fact, plants evolved flowers purely as a means of attracting pollinating insects, offering food for them in the form of carb-rich nectar for energy, and pollen…

Kitchen Garden Best Buy and Top Picks

Here are our favourite gardening products for January, chosen for their quality, effectiveness and value for money. BEST BUY MULTI-PURPOSE SCISSORS Suitable for home and garden, these multi-purpose scissors are suitable for a range of gardening tasks, including cutting flowers, twine, and cardboard. They have double ground stainless steel blade and come with a 19 year guarantee. WOLF-GARTEN TOOLSwww.wolfgarten-tools.co.ukTEL: 01869…