Garden Maintenance

Garden Maintenance in July – 1

The kitchen garden is one of my favourite places at this time of year – there is so much going on that it hardly seems like garden maintenance, more like a journey of discovery. You never know quite what is going to be ready to harvest and what culinary delights you can come up with! [...]

Garden Maintenance – Overkill With Weed Killer

Sometimes when using a weed killer it can unintentionally get on to plants you don’t want to get rid of. Occasionally when spraying a wind will carry the spray onto other plants and it won’t be until sometime later that the damage appears. The first thing you should to do is wash it off with [...]

Slug Control

I have a problem in my garden, and not a very nice one at that – Slugs. It has taken me years to get them under some sort of control. The previous owners of our house were not gardeners at all and pests ran rife which left us quite a legacy of hard work to [...]

Moving A Plant in Your Garden

Autumn and Winter are generally considered the best time of year to move your garden plants but in truth, it can be done at almost any time providing adequate precautions are taken. Personally I move a lot of my plants in the early Spring after Winter has taken its toll. When moving a smaller plant [...]

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