Advice & Inspiration

Advice & inspiration

After a long summer of getting the best out of your lawn, it is time to start preparing it for winter.

As the weather starts to cool down at the end of the summer, how can you still make the most of your garden in autumn?

If your patio looks a little drab and uninteresting after a colourful summer, then plant up your containers with late...

The ban stopping the sale of bagged peat for the home gardener will mean that everyone will have to be gardening peat...

With the arrival of autumn comes a task that’s the bane of the season for many gardeners.

After a long summer of getting the best out of your lawn, it is time to start preparing it for winter.

With an estimated 24 million gardens in the UK, this provides a huge amount of space and opportunity to help wildlife...

If your patio looks a little drab and uninteresting after a colourful summer, then plant up your containers with late...

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A lack of magnesium in the soil shows up as yellowing leaves on plants.

Ever wondered how tea is produced? Let us take you on the process and hopefully inspire you to grow your own tea.

Allotment gardening is enjoying something of a renaissance. With the Big Allotment Challenge on the TV, celebrity chefs...

Organic gardening is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to expensive, tasteless and out of season fruit and...

We thought we would give you a run-through of the key things that you need to think about if you are thinking of...

Growing and eating kale, or borecole, has never been more popular.

Whether it’s sweet corn or a different variety, corn is one of the world’s most important seed-based crops. It’s a...

So the tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers have gone and your gro-bags or planters sit in the corner looking dejected.

Numerous plants can develop leaf spots that are caused by several different fungal – or even bacterial – diseases.

2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the First World War, a day that has echoed through our ancestor’s lives, our lives...

The natural world has given us humans a veritable bounty - from plants and animals that we cook and eat to the herbs and...

Drinking your own homegrown homebrew with friends and family is a fun and rewarding experience, and always a talking...