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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 ...