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Step-by-Step Guide to Taking Dahlia Cuttings
To 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…
How to Set Up a Capillary Watering System
Spring 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…
Easy Tomato Growing: Switch to Dwarf and Micro Varieties
Why I’m Switching to Growing Dwarf and Micro Tomatoes March is here, which means it’s time for one of my favourite gardening activities – sowing tomato…
Budget-Friendly Gift Ideas for Garden Lovers
Looking for the perfect gift for the gardener in your life but want to avoid the hustle of crowded shops and the eye-watering prices of fancy…
How to Dig Up and Store Dahlia Tubers for Winter
Dahlias are the showstoppers of the summer garden, with their bold blooms adding a splash of color and drama to any space. But as the colder…
Growing Daffodils for Show: A Beginner’s Journey
I’m sharing my unexpected journey into growing daffodils for a horticultural show, having previously deemed them dull. Influenced by a friend, I’m explore various daffodil divisions,…
Gardening Show Participation: Unforgettable Moments and Tips
Sharing my experience entering a local gardening show for the first time, initial nerves and ultimate surprise at winning second place for their onions.
Compact Fruit Trees: The Perfect Solution for Small Spaces
If you’re working with limited garden space but still want to enjoy the satisfaction of homegrown fruit, then patio (also called columnar) fruit trees might just…
Maximize Your Apple Harvest with Summer Pruning Tips
Summer pruning focuses on enhancing fruit production by encouraging your tree to concentrate its energy on developing fruit buds close to the stem. This method contrasts…
Pruning Tomato Plants: A Complete Guide for Beginners
Have 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”…
Growing tomatoes outdoors in Scotland
Most 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…
Sow and Grow in January
January always seems to be a busy month of sowing on social media, but in truth, you don’t HAVE to start your seeds yet. The reason…
The easy no fear way to sharpen garden pruners
It’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…
Deep cleaning a greenhouse
As we gear up for winter, it’s time to address a critical task that should be at the top of every gardener’s to-do list: cleaning the…
Building a multi-level, wooden, corner planter
We’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…
Spring bulbs for amazing colour, get planting
Believe it or not, spring is just around the corner, and you know what that means – it’s time to get those bulbs in the ground…
My tips so you can grow BIGGER garlic
It’s that time of year so let’s talk about planting garlic. Garlic 101: A Quick Introduction Garlic (Allium sativum) is not only a staple in the…
Saving Seeds from Your Tomatoes and Bell Peppers
Let’s save seeds from this year’s tomatoes and bell peppers so that you don’t need to spend vital pennies on new seeds! Whether you’re an experienced…
Tomato blight: How I’m dealing with it
Tomato blight is the boogeyman of tomato growers, especially here in the UK. Our humid climate makes it the perfect environment for blight to take hold…
Will it survive the frosts? Hardiness ratings for your plants
As a youtube gardener, my garden is shared with a worldwide audience of keen gardeners. We share information, learn from each other and get to experience…
5 top tips for winter growing and the seeds I’m sowing
I know a lot of you guys are excited to try your hand at growing food and flowers over autumn and winter, so let’s talk about…
Harvest and cure onions for long term storage
While it’s true that you can harvest and use homegrown onions at any point, regardless of size, if you want to store your onion harvest so…
The Great Pepper Pruning Adventure: navigating the Ups and Downs of Summer Pruning
Pruning is always a scary topic, especially if you are relatively new to gardening so this is your advanced warning that today there is going to…
How I deal with aphids in the greenhouse and garden
There are certain topics (or questions) that I can always expect at certain points throughout the year, and May until August is always about aphids or…
What you need to know about mulch
Mulch, in the simplest terms, is a layer you add on top of your garden soil. There are lots of benefits to adding mulch to your…
Self-watering in the greenhouse
We’ve made no secret of how much we love and how successful our current self-watering planters have been over the last 8 years. We have 3…
Florida Weave: supporting tall tomato plants outdoors in Scotland
Building a florida weave tomato trellis using bamboo canes and string is easy and cheap and provides amazing support for growing both determinate bush tomatoes and…
How To Pinch Out Your Dahlia Plants To Force More Flowers
There are a lot of small things you can do which make huge gains in your gardening, pinching out the growing tips on some plants is…
How to harden off your plants before putting them outdoors
If 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…
We tried making a planter from an old pallet
There’s no doubt about it, your garden is never big enough. So when you run out of space for flower beds, veg beds, herb beds or…
Don’t let garden jargon get you down
If you ever have a conversation with me about gardening, one of the things you’ll notice is that I don’t use a lot of the “gardening…