Tips
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How to protect your plants during a heatwave
Editor, Steve Ott, shares his top tips for protecting plants, while temperatures soar to up to 40 degrees throughout the UK.
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To be busy
Emma O’Neill, head gardener at horticultural charity Garden Organic, shares her top tips for what needs to be done in the garden as autumn turns to winter
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This month in Kitchen Garden – July 2017
In the July issue – Recipes, melons, liquid feeds, herbal harvest, weedkillers, giveaways worth over £1665 plus much more! Although there is plenty to do in the garden this month it’s also important to take some time out to relax…
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Finger-licking peppers
Sowing seeds can be fiddly at the best of times. Chilli and sweet pepper seedlings aren’t too bad but even so I still find them tricky. What I find easiest is to lick my forefinger and then press gently on…
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Windy Weather Tips For Your Greenhouse
A Wind Resistant Greenhouse During Winter Weather Come & see us at Malvern Show, 24th & 25th September Although hurricanes and uncontrollable storms are unlikely in the UK, we do seem to have received our fare share of windy weather…
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Say Goodbye to Aches & Pains
New infographic gives gardeners tips on how to relieve their aches and pains The English weather is unpredictable at the best of times but when we enter this time of year the first bit of sunshine we get we head…
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Handy Hacks for your Garden
We’ve teamed up with the friendly folk at Crowders.co.uk to bring you regular garden hack videos! Turn your average milk bottle into a watering can… Get recycling – sow sweetcorn in toilet roll tubes! Re-purpose old bean canes and pegs…
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No Excuses for Not Pruning
If you haven’t pruned yet, better now than never. Markus Kobelt of Swiss fruit nursery Lubera has just posted a very funny blog listing the excuses his customers come up with for not having pruned their fruit trees, ranging from,…
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Growing your own couldn’t be simpler!
NEW Miracle-Gro Gro-ables Seeds Pods makes growing easy! ADVERTISING FEATURE: Why grow your own vegetables? Well, there’s the practical advantage that growing your own vegetables is often cheaper than shop-bought produce, but for most of us the real benefits are…
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Top Tip: use coffee grounds to enrich your soil
If you drink filtered coffee, don’t throw your coffee grounds away. They are excellent for the garden. Coffee grounds are a great source of nitrogen, just what your leaves love, though it’s not a quick nitrogen fix. The nitrogen in…
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Top tips for better beetroot!
Want better beetroot in 2016? Read on for our top tips… Sow small numbers regularly to avoid gluts. Roots take roughly 90 days to mature from sowing. Choose a sunny, sheltered site for your crop. In a crop rotation, beetroot…
