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The Answer to Weeding is Mulching.

We are in the busiest time of the gardening year. With greenhouses fit to bursting and our plots filling up with seeds and plants....

How to protect your plants from slugs

We are all having a very wet spring and slugs seem to be a big problem this year. There are more than 20 different...

How not to look after your plot

Today finally I had a little bit of time and the weather was okay too so did a bit of gardening. When you have...

Olympic runners in the vegetable garden

Now that the worst of the cold weather’s behind us, at least it is down South, we can start to sow our Beans and...

Growing Rosemary from cuttings or from seeds

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is a woody shrub growing up to 1.8 m tall but normally it grows about 1 metre tall here in the...

Problems with Squashes and Pumpkins.

      There seems to be a lot of questions arising from problems with Squashes and Pumpkins this season.  The Cucubit family which includes Squashes, Pumpkins,...