Composting Garden and Kitchen waste is one of those simple activities that has an enormous benefits in all sorts of ways – a true ‘Win Win’ situation. By not adding our own Garden refuse and Kitchen waste to the bin collection we can hugely reduce landfill. Landfill creates greenhouse gases and contributes to global warming. [...]

How to choose your Vegetable Seeds for Spring sowing. One of the most exciting and satisfying Gardening Job in January is to trawl the seed catalogues and order you new Vegetable Seeds for the coming Gardening Season. You really do need a p

Too often when we decide – or more usually when we don’t have a choice! – that we need to plant a hedge in the garden we tend to go for the more traditional hedging plants: Privet, Beech, Laurel, Holly etc. These plants are ideal for hedging and

The most highly populated areas of Great Britain are around our coast line, and if you live near the beach you will now how difficult it can be to create the Garden you would like to have or grow the plants you would like to grow. Salt and sand l

Fertilizers are expensive chemicals and can be hazardous and do nothing to aid a organic approach to Gardening, and yet, they can make a huge difference to the results you achieve with your Gardening endeavours. I think the most important thing to r

It is so easy to get completely lost in time when watching the antics and behaviour of wild Birds feeding in the Garden. If, like me, you keep a score of how many different species you can attract, you will know how stupidly exciting it is when a pre

In those dark days of Winter when no one really wants to venture out into the Garden, that is the perfect time for Pruning your Fruit Trees and Fruit Bushes. Let us start by making sure we have the correct equipment to carry out the pruning oper

Autumn. That season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, it can be quite a colourful time in the Garden ; the tree leaves are turning to gold and red, there are still some blossom on the roses and even bedding begonias are clinging on gamely before the

Artificial Grass – Good or Bad ? The Lawn is probably the most attended and admired element of any Garden. It is certainly the element that has the most time and money spent upon it. If the Garden is a Picture, then the Lawn is the Frame. The Gard

The low growing, spreading Bamboo Species make superb ground cover plants, and the only reason that they are not used more often is , I think, because of their cost. If you have in your Garden a difficult to cultivate bank or an area that is tucked a