Gardening
How to Aerate Your Lawn With A Garden Fork
Using a trusty garden fork to aerate your lawn is suitable for most gardens. It’s a nice, gentle workout that you can…
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Gardening
Gardening
How To Make Leaf Mould
What is Leaf Mould?Raking up leaves is part of a gardener’s life. The best way to make use of all those leaves…
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Gardening
How to Scarify Your Lawn
Scarifying Your Lawn is Easy With a Springy Garden RakeLawn scarification in the UK is done in Autumn or Spring, about every…
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Gardening
Year Round Guide To Essential Garden Jobs
JanuaryHedging Gently brush snow off evergreen hedging with an upward motion. Erect temporary windbreaks for new evergreen hedges. Wind loosens recently planted…
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Garden Plants
How to Prune Lavender
Lavender is the most underpruned plant in the UK — and it's costing gardeners years of good growth. Most people give their lavender a nervous little trim with the kitchen scissors, terrified of cutting into brown wood. The result? A hedge that goes scrawny within a couple of years and needs replacing in four or five, when it should easily last fifteen to twenty. This guide breaks down the "three eights" rule, why English, Dutch, and French lavender all need pruning at completely different times of year, and how to tell the difference between wood that will regrow and wood that won't. Don't be afraid to cut hard — it's the single most important thing you can do for your lavender's longevity.
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Garden Plants
How to Dig Up & Store Dahlia Tubers Overwinter
Overwintering Dahlias: How to Store Tubers and Protect Them Through Winter Dahlias are tender perennials. The tubers survive from year to year…
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Garden Plants
Dividing Herbaceous Perennials
Digging up and dividing most summer-flowering herbaceous perennial plants is an excellent way to perk them up when they’re looking tired, giving…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How to Train & Prune Blackberry Bushes
Blackberry bushes are easy to cut back, this page is not here to overcomplicate things.It’s just a matter of choosing what works…
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Roses
Pruning & Trimming Bush Roses
Climbing roses are pruned differently, into a framework of long, ideally winding canes that cover its supports. Related guidesBest Rose Varieties for…
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