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  • 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.

  • Creating a Bog Garden

    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.

  • Making the most of your greenhouse for vegetables

    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.

  • Garden Lawn Care and Maintenance

    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!