A practical guide to feeding QuadGrow planters – how to top up safely, which fertilisers to use, and the big mistake I’ll never make again.
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Step-by-Step Guide to Taking Dahlia Cuttings
Comments are DisabledTo expand your dahlia collection cost-effectively, taking cuttings is beneficial. This guide covers the process, indicating early spring as the best time for cuttings. It outlines necessary tools, step-by-step planting, and tips for success, ultimately leading to thriving plants that bloom earlier than tubers. Happy gardening!
How to Set Up a Capillary Watering System
Comments are DisabledSpring in the greenhouse can quickly become overwhelming, especially when you have an abundance of seedlings demanding constant attention. Regular watering can turn into a daunting chore, but there’s a simple solution to make life much easier—setting up a capillary matting watering system. Here’s my easy-to-follow guide, inspired by the […]
Pruning Tomato Plants: A Complete Guide for Beginners
Comments are DisabledHave you ever found yourself completely confused about how to prune your tomato plants? Well, you’re not alone! When I first started gardening, terms like “truss” and “sucker” left me scratching my head. I was terrified I’d prune the wrong part of the plant and end up with no tomatoes. […]
Growing tomatoes outdoors in Scotland
Comments are DisabledMost tomato growers in Scotland grow theirs in their greenhouses because to be honest, our weather is unreliable in the spring and summer months and not always as warm as we’d like in early autumn. Which means, for warm weather crops like tomatoes, we can see poor harvests as tomatoes […]
The easy no fear way to sharpen garden pruners
Comments are DisabledIt’s time to inject some life back into those garden tools, the easy way! First things first, you absolutely don’t need to sharpen, clean or oil your garden tools. However, if you do, they will last longer, work better and you will save money because you won’t need to replace […]
Building a multi-level, wooden, corner planter
Comments are DisabledWe’ve spent a couple of weeks building a new planter for the garden, it’s multi-leveled and modular. In other words, three separate parts make up the planter allowing us to change the shape to suit. But for now, it’s a corner as we designed it and built it specifically for […]
How to harden off your plants before putting them outdoors
Comments are DisabledIf you have grown plants indoors or using heat and grow lights in order to get a jump start on the season. Then the next step before you transplant them out into your garden is to harden them off. It sounds like a traumatic, complicated thing, but really it comes […]
Planting up those dahlia tubers
Comments are DisabledI fell in love with dahlias by accident back in 2012. I had no idea what a dahlia was, back then I just chose things to grow because the picture on the seed packet captured me. That’s how my journey with dahlias started. It’s was dahlia Yankee Doodle dandy. I […]
The BEST seed storage and organisation system I’ve ever had
Comments are DisabledAt least once a week I’m asked how I organize my seeds, and until now I didn’t think I was doing anything fancy, but I’ve realized that actually I have a pretty nifty system for storing seeds and organizing them to make it easy to find what I need and […]
