General Gardening

Articles of interest to all gardeners, whatever they are growing.
  • Gardening Efficiently: The Benefits of Mulching

    Save time and effort by using mulch for better quality soil and easy weed control

  • Controlling Slugs and Snails

    Slugs and snails are without doubt the worst pest in the garden. You can control them but you need to know what you are dealing with,

  • Growing Liliums - Lilies

    Liliums can be planted in mediocre soil and will flower but for real showstopper flowers you need to follow a few basic rules

  • Soil Improvement Additives

    Adding Mycorrhiza beneficial fungus and kelp meal has helped me to greatly improve my soil and garden.

  • Day Lillies - Brief Beauty of the Day Lilly

    There is a huge range of modern daylillies to enhance your garden. Easy to care for, the day lilly is a must have flower

  • Heirloom Tomatoes and Vegetables

    You often hear that things don't taste like they used to. The answer is to grow heirloom varieties of tomatoes and other vegetables. Recapture real taste.

  • Hostas - Care and Cultivating Hosta Plants

    Hostas are one of the most goof-proof floral plants in the garden and easy to propagate by dividing. The main problem is slugs and snails and even that problem has a solution.

  • Farmyard Manure - Nature's Natural Fertiliser

    Traditionally the best way to improve the fertility of your soil has been to apply farm yard manure. That is often hard to explain but there are other manures you can find to use.

  • 10 Tips for Using Fertilisers

    10 tips and hints on using fertilisers to help you grow better plants.

  • NPK Fertiliser - What the NPK means in Fertiliser

    Most fertilisers will contain three elements essential for growth, NPK which stands for Nitrogen (N) Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K). These elements help plants grow in different ways and an understanding of this will help you when choosing the correct fertiliser for a plant or for a stage in the development of a plant.