It’s easy to make your garden more wildlife-friendly. Encouraging pollinating insects like bees and butterflies will increase your crops of fruit, and of vegetables like runner beans. Birds will eat your insect pests, and enable you to reduce the amount of pesticide you have to use in the garden. And you’ll be doing your bit […]
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February Top Tips Start sowing / planting sweet peas outdoors – they are very hardy and perform better under cold conditions. Brighten up spring pots, tubs and window boxes with Snowdrops, Dwarf Daffodils and Primroses which are in flower now. Start chitting seed potatoes for early crops. Plant lily bulbs, but protect new shoots from late frosts. […]
Check out our November Top Tips for your garden It is still a good time to plant roses, trees, shrubs, provided the ground is not frozen or waterlogged. Don’t forget bonemeal – ideal food for most new plantings. Protect tender plants with horticultural fleece, and prevent planted pots from freezing solid by wrapping them in […]
September Top Tips Start to harvest your Autumn fruit, raspberries, blackberries, apples etc. Place a net over your pond to catch the first falls of autumn leaves it will save lots of work later in the year. Clean out your greenhouses so that they are ready for the Autumn. Plant spring flowering bulbs. Dig up any […]
August Top Tips Keep your Camellias & Rhododendrons well-watered at this me of the year to ensure they develop next years buds Cut back faded perennials so that you border stay looking nice and dy. If you have a wild flower meadow now is the me to mow it. It will help scaer the seeds […]
Mays Top Gardening tips Be on the watch for late frosts! Protect your tender plants. Earth up your potatoes, approx. 5cm at a time. Water is an essential in any garden; try to collect rainwater where possible, and think about recycling water too. Plant veg seeds & plants; keep them moist & cover them with […]
Thompson & Morgan have a produced a guide to what you should be sowing and growing this April
Thompson & Morgan have a produced a guide to what you should be sowing and growing this February
June Top Tips Use Aquasave cones to water plants while on holiday. Transform your garden at night with solar powered lighting. Liquid feed outdoor plants with Phostrogen or Miracle-Gro for more flowers and bigger crops. Use copper table, wool pellets or organic slug killer to ward off slugs and snails. Use ‘After Cut All In […]
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