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.

If you have a damp patch in your garden why not turn it into a bog garden? If not, bog gardens are both easy to create and beautiful to look at.

Most vegetable growers use their greenhouse to produce the standard crops; tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, aubergine (egg plant), etc. as well as for starting seeds in shelter prior to planting out, but there are ways in which your greenhouse can be more productive for you by producing winter salads and early vegetables.

Renovating a lawn is probably less work than creating a new lawn, but it is easier to keep your lawn in good condition in the first place!