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Seed sowing for homegrown vegetables
How early can I start sowing vegetable seeds? We all get impatient for winter to end and the growing season to start, but it's not a good idea to sow your vegetable seeds too early. Seeds sown into cold, wet soil without enough daylight are likely to rot (or get...
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Tips for Your Vegetable and Fruit Plot in winter
Growing Your Own Fruit and Vegetables You can always make space for a fruit, vegetable and herb area - however small your space. The satisfaction and extra taste you get from home grown produce will be worth the effort required. In the winter it may seem that there...
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How to make a recycled Pallet Planter
Pallet planters Wooden delivery pallets are easy to find and make sturdy planters to brighten up your garden, balcony or yard. Used stood on their edge they take up very little room on the ground but create an eye catching and practical vertical planter. Materials...
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Mulching to feed your soil
Feed your soil We are often encouraged to apply feeds and fertilisers to plants in our garden. However, mulching can create the basic foundation for happy and healthy plants by improving the soil. If you're lucky, you may have a garden with beautiful crumbly soil...
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Semi-Ripe Cuttings – When, What and How
When to take Semi-ripe Cuttings You can take semi-ripe cuttings from plant stems and use them to grow new plants for free. They are just one type of stem cutting; you can take different types of cutting through the year - Hardwood cuttings are taken from November to...
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Herbs for Aromatic and Wildlife-friendly Gardens
Herbs in the Garden Herbs, rather than short-lived flowers, can provide fragrance all year round in the garden with their aromatic, often evergreen, leaves. Brush past a mint or sage plant or rub the leaves of lavender or thyme between your fingers and the herb leaves...
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Seed Collecting Tips
Seed Collecting Your garden, and other green spaces, are constantly producing seed from their existing plants. Flowering plants strive to reproduce and spread themselves by a range of different means. However, seed production is one of the most successful as the...
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Autumn Colour with Small Garden Trees
Autumn Colour with Small Garden Trees When many flowering plants are finishing for the year you can still have autumn colour with small garden trees through their leaves and berries. When choosing trees for a small garden you need to check the eventual height and...
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Long Flowering Viola cornuta
Long Flowering Still looking beautiful as summer slides into autumn, the long flowering Viola cornuta is a small (up to 15cm), but tough, border plant . Its clear blue flowers start in late spring and continue all the way through to September. It performs well in...
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Garden Design Tips for Beginners
Colour Schemes Pick a limited range of colours you like and stick to those. This will give your garden a clear theme and make it pleasing to look at. People tend to choose purple/pink/blue/white or yellow/orange/red. But contrasts with purple/orange/yellow can also...
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