From advice for beginners to help you can understand your garden and improve your gardening skills, to sharing more advanced techniques used by experienced gardeners.
Garden Shed Essentials One of the things that you really appreciate when the weather turns damp and cool is a really good garden shed. To be terribly trendy we could call it a potting shed, but most of us ‘pot’ in the glasshouse!
Not only is the garden shed somewhere to stash your gardening gear - all those precious tools and essentials, but also it is somewhere to head for when the heavens open! A good garden shed is a great investment. Tools, garden stakes, seeds, wheelbarrows, the lot, are safe dry and cared for. Do invest in a series of hooks for hanging spades, forks etc, it is not only tidier by better for the tools themselves.
Garden sheds come in all shapes, sizes and sources. Some are as gorgeous as this, some are a little more rustic. Try to make it possible to enjoy a cuppa while you sort seeds, write labels or plan the day’s work.
Cage gardening
Pests in the vege garden have made one gardener re think. A large 'cage' has been built to keep out the rabbits and possums. Other side benefits were found - the weather effects were modified, fewer white butterflies and the cat didn't dig up the seedlings! Try this link
Starting a vegetable garden is an appealing idea. Vegetables are fun to grow, you get to eat the rewards of your labour and they look great too.
But where, and how, to start. A step-by-step guide to starting a vegetable garden - site selection, tools, soils and layouts.
You'll need to make a commitment to maintaining the garden. It's best to do a little, but to do it often. But you'll have such fun. It's time to get planting. Enjoy!
Plant can outgrow their allotted space, overwhelming neighbours and spoiling the balance in a planting scheme.
Many perennials become open as the growth in the centre ages and dies, with woody tissues that are prone to disease and sap the energy, besides looking less than great. Division revitalises the plant.
Plants have a number of defences for cold, adapting in ways that enable them to survive from season to season. Understanding these helps us to carry our plants through the cold months.
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Pests in the vege garden have made one gardener re think. A large 'cage' has been built to keep out the rabbits and possums. Other side benefits were found - the weather effects were modified, fewer white butterflies and the cat didn't dig up the seedlings!
A web site is rather like a garden- there is always something more to that could be done, something wonderful or just plain useful, that could be included! So, please, send us an