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
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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. How to Prune Rose BushesPruning…
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