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Patios - Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and the other one....
Who remembers Ground Force? The BBC gardening programme that brought us decking and the 2 day garden makeover. Did you know that Alan,...
Jul 23, 20194 min read


Saving Seed.
Seed can be saved from many of our plants. It means that we can make good use of what they leave for us as they come to the end of their...
Jul 18, 20193 min read


Watering your plants...….
Have you ever wondered why we need to water our plants. Really wondered rather than simply do it? Knowing why we do it and how to do it...
Jul 12, 20193 min read


Chickens, Roses, The Courts Gardens and the National Trust
Last Saturday and as we’re en route to collect our chicken coop – that was actually advertised as a chicken coupe, that was actually a...
Jun 27, 20193 min read


Deadheading - why & how.
So if like ours your roses have taken a battering with the recent unseasonal weather then you might want to start to think about a touch...
Jun 22, 20192 min read


Fertilisers – Part Two
We thought you might like to see a short film that we took the other week whilst we were in Mid Wales. We camped for a few days over half...
Jun 19, 20192 min read


Fertilisers – Part One
We’ve looked at how and why we might want to improve the condition of our soil. This time we’re going to start to look at how we might...
May 27, 20193 min read


The Soil in Frome
We were recently asked to take a look at a south facing garden of a lovely new build property where a small lawn was struggling to...
May 21, 20191 min read


Soil – do you need to improve it? Part Two.....
Last time we started to touch our soil and let it get under our finger nails. We did that so we could find out what sort of soil we had...
May 19, 20193 min read


Soil – what is it? Part One.....
Well every one knows what soil is. It’s the stuff that’s beneath us. It’s what we dig over before we slide into a nice warm bath at the...
May 7, 20193 min read


From a packet of seeds.....
So I’m looking at the last few packets of seeds that I really need to get going with. I’d planned to get them in some seed compost or the...
Apr 29, 20193 min read
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