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Feb

Valentine's Gifts to Match Your Valentine's Personality

Valentine’s gifts can be a tricky one, with all the expectations to splash out on the craziest of gifts. Why not keep it simple this year and go for something that will grow on your Valentine? A living gift offers so much more than an uninspired gift from the shops…

Feb

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Growing Great Garlic

Growing garlic gives you an ample supply of one of nature’s best healing herbs. Garlic is one of those amazing plants that has been used by mankind since recorded history. There are many different types of garlic, with most belonging to the Alium sativum group of plants. Garlic is known mainly…

Feb

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Alternatives to control weeds in the garden

One year’s seeding is seven year’s weeding. Weeds tend to be our nemesis when gardening and many an hour has been spent methodically and sometimes frantically digging those persistent buggers out of the garden. Yours truly has developed a habit of pulling out weeds no matter where. I have to…

Feb

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Make Your Own Compost and Mulch This Autumn

Here's a handy compost guide on making compost and mulch with material collected from your own garden. Don't let all those free leaves go to waste!

Feb

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Preparing Your Flower Beds for Autumn Planting

With the change of the season it is time to start with autumn planting in anticipation of all the winter and spring colour. With most of the summer annuals finishing off and going to seed, an autumn planting is a must to get a head start on your winter and…

Feb

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Grow your own tasty winter veggies

We always tend to think of winter as this grey colourless season where nothing grows, anxiously waiting for Spring’s warm embrace. Yet, winter holds so much potential, especially in the veggie department where we can still expect a bumper crop. For a culinary twist consider planting some tasty heirloom veggies…

Feb

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Six easy steps to prune your roses

Rose pruning seems to have come a bit earlier than usual this year with our roses thinking that it is already the end of July. Fret not, as you can still prune your roses even if it is a bit early. Left unpruned, roses eventually carry out their own pruning…

Feb

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A new way of looking at recycling

We tend to think of recycling as putting all our glass, cans, and cardboard in separate bags and having it picked up to be recycled. This is a great place to start, but the amazing thing about recycling is that it can be so much more Recycling can be about…

Feb

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Winning Gardens of the 2015 Chelsea Flower Show

See Winning Gardens From the 2015 Chelsea Flower Show

Feb

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Waste not, rather recycle

I am always amazed by the amount of black dustbin bags out on the streets on pickup day (that is if they actually pick it up). It seems that at times we waste more than what we really use and end up throwing the rest away. Recycling is one of…