Gardening

This is mostly a diary of what we've been up to in the garden, but it also covers anything for the guy or gal with green fingers. If you have any gardening questions, or reckon that anything here is a load of tosh, speak up by Adding your Comment in the appropriate entry.

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How to Repair a Pond Liner

[30 Apr 2011]

It is quite straightforward to repair a PVC pond liner, so before you decide to rip everything out and start again, read on! The first thing ...

Seed Tape for Simpler Sowing

[14 Apr 2011]

Have you ever found your fingers to be too fat for sowing seeds from a loose packetful? If so, then seed tape may be for you. The seeds are ...

First Spring Seedlings

[04 Apr 2011]

We have got the first of our 2011 seedlings: tomato, courgette (zuchini) and sweet pea. All were propagated under glass sheets in the lounge ...

Native Hedgerow topped up

[02 Apr 2011]

To boost our two-year-old native hedgerow on the front border, and to replace the odd failed plant, we have planted thirty three-foot plants ...

Guardian Offer: 160 Summer-flowering Bulbs for under a fiver

[06 Mar 2011]

The Guardian has an offer of 160 bulbs 'free for every reader', only you have to stump up £4.50 for P&P. Order online to avoid any ...

Our Native Hedgerow

[06 Mar 2011]

We inherited a prosperous laurel hedge on our front border, and decided that its tremendous growth and unattractiveness to wildlife were good ...

Get yourself some garden worms

[08 Jul 2010]

The BBC Dig-In series has released a video explaining how to encourage worms to compost your kitchen scraps:

How to Avoid Carrot Fly

[25 Jun 2010]

If you don't want your carrot crop getting drilled into by the dreaded carrot fly, watch this video by the BBC Dig-In team: Chris Collins on ...

Custom-built Greenhouse

[09 Jun 2010]

This greenhouse uses up an otherwise-unusable space next to the house, in the front garden. It consists of 2.4m lengths of twinwall polycarbonate ...

The Old Seeds Experiment

[30 Apr 2009]

What to do with all those old seeds kicking about in the potting shed? Here's what I've decided to do with mine: I mixed them all up in a tub ...

The Laurel Hedge Must GO!

[06 Sep 2008]

We have a thick, tall laurel hedge on our front border, and have decided to get rid of it. The laurel hedge is detrimental to wildlife, and ...

Our New Hedge Is Planted

[22 Nov 2008]

Here is the list of bare root hedging that we've just bought from Felthorpe Nurseries: 5x Hornbeam @£0.65 each 10x Hazel @£0 ...

Native Hedge Choices

[16 Nov 2008]

A gardening friend has told us about the best place in North Norfolk to get bare root hedge plants from, and that is Felthorpe Forest Nursery ...

Freeflow Irrigation Gift Pack

[14 Nov 2008]

Freeflow Irrigation Gift Pack from Evergreener.com: it connects to a water butt and provides gravity-fed irrigation to up to 16 pots.

Aphid Predators

[27 Aug 2008]

The Daily Telegraph has an article about what to plant, to attract creatures that eat aphids: Let them eat aphids. The good insects: Lacewings ...

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