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Gardening in March

Expert Gardener — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:35:15 +0000

Winter still holds sway, but there is the odd day when you can sense that Spring is just around the corner! Your Garden will be sensing it also, and if you look carefully you will see the buds on trees and shrubs beginning to swell, and the new growth of perennial plants begin to push [...]

Growing Herbs

Expert Gardener — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:44:00 +0000

Growing all those fabulous Vegetables is only half the story; the next bit is cooking them into a delicious meal. Recipes for main meals abound by the thousand in most of our homes, and nearly all of them include Herbs as an important - nay vital - i

Growing Tomatoes

Expert Gardener — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:22:09 +0000

The Tomato is the most popular of all edible crops grown by the British Gardener. The reason is probably because, even if you don’t have a Garden, you can still produce a reasonable tasting of this delicious fruit with just a window box or even

Growing Sweet Peas for the joy of it

Expert Gardener — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:47:27 +0000

My first serious attempt at growing a ‘proper crop’ was Sweet Peas. I must have been about nine years old at the time, I had heard my Aunt Doris, who was a really good Gardener and Allotment Holder, say that the thing she loved to grow the most w

Gardening in February

James — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:51:25 +0000

The days are getting a bit longer - not much, I know, but at least we are going in the right direction, Spring is just around the corner! It is quite a good idea at this moment in the gardening year to make a short ‘Jobs List’. This will help

Making compost from Garden and Kitchen Waste

Expert Gardener — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:23:47 +0000

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 reduc

Vegetable Seeds

Expert Gardener — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:27:06 +0000

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

Evergreen shrubs as hedging plants

Expert Gardener — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:19:33 +0000

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

Growing Potatoes

Expert Gardener — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:49:04 +0000

The ‘Grow Your Own’ phenomenon that has sprung up among amateur Gardeners during the last few years has been a great encouragement to both the retail Vegetable Seed industry and to Professional Horticulturist like myself. We find it fascinatin

Gardening in January

Expert Gardener — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:16:23 +0000

What to do in the Garden in January Snow clearing springs to mind! But there will be things to drag you out from your hibernation. This quiet time of the year offers you a golden opportunity to attend to some serious maintenance on the wooden s