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You Should Safeguard Your Garden Away From Hailstorms
By Joseph Harper · 11 years ago
You might have a lovely garden that you put your heart in but it can be ruined in a moment from the weather. There isn't anything that can be done to stop the weather from ...
4 Great Reasons to Eat and Grow Kale
By Valorie Prahl · 11 years ago
Several weeks ago, Scott Jacobson published an article in Slate on "The All-Kale Diet: Kale of Duty." Although intended as a bit of humor, there is much to recommend this vegetable to everyone interested in ...
4 Benefits of Growing Veggies on Raised Garden Beds
By Valorie Prahl · 11 years ago
My husband and I have been growing vegetables and herbs on raised garden beds for more than 30 years now. We have moved a number of times but have recreated the raised garden beds in ...
Maintaining Your Garden Improving
By Matt Etri · 11 years ago
There are many things that go into planning and planting a summer garden. Far too often would be gardeners do not consider the time and energy that should be spent maintaining the summer garden in ...
The maintenance of A fabulous Summer time Garden
By Stefan Vitou · 11 years ago
There are many things that go into planning and planting a summer garden. A lot of work goes into keeping a summer garden looking fabulous all summer long and most people fail to consider this ...
Small Space Gardening
By Jonathan Miller · 11 years ago
Even the smallest patio or porch can boast a crop of vegetables or a garden of flowers in containers. Planter boxes, wooden barrels, hanging baskets and large flowerpots are just some of the containers that ...
How to Grow Delicious Raspberries?
By Richard Ludwig · 11 years ago
Today, I will give you a few tricks on how to grow raspberries. Raspberries are sweet treats that everyone likes. Therefore, they should be in every garden. Raspberries are very modest in their demands. They ...
Kid's Gardening Tools Will Put The Little Gardeners on the Right Path!
By Durand Demlow · 11 years ago
As gardeners, we all know that the right tools are important for growing the best produce. Yet, many of us either have our children use our tools or buy them little plastic garden toy tools ...
4 Easy Steps to Grow Your Own Vegetable Garden
By Richard Ludwig · 11 years ago
If you are a hobby gardener, you may be dreaming about fresh organic vegetables. It is easier than it seems with a few simple steps. I discovered that vegetable gardening requires good planning and proper ...
Building a Night Garden
By Joshua Ellison · 11 years ago
The week before last I was lucky enough to attend Custom House’s Grand Designs convention, wherein over a thousand different exhibitors displayed a range of new products, techniques and disciplines, applicable not only to interior ...
Building Your Boundaries
By Joshua Ellison · 11 years ago
There are a variety of different reasons for establishing definite and long term boundaries around your garden and these can include privacy, security (from natural, as well as human threats) or just protection for your ...
Gardening Around the World: The Top Ten Gardens to Visit – Part 2!
By Joshua Ellison · 11 years ago
Continuing, as promised, from last week’s article which began this title race for, what could be considered, ‘the greatest garden design standing’, we now have for you numbers 6-10 of the premier league of horticulture. ...
The Future of Hemp
By Joshua Ellison · 11 years ago
For much of the last century Hemp was vilified for its reputation synonymous with Cannabis, and, unfortunately, the fear campaign waged by western politics pigeon-holed a crop of high economic potential, as a dangerous and ...
Rejuvenating Britain’s Heritage Crops
By Joshua Ellison · 11 years ago
Some jubilation is in order, for recent news has been dominated by stories of a general revival of Britain’s agricultural heritage. In the 1970’s, EU regulations concerning the stringency of seed testing, and also the ...
Gardening Around the World: The Top Ten Gardens to Visit – Part 1!
By Joshua Ellison · 11 years ago
As gardening is such a global pursuit, is important that those of us who hold an interest in horticulture should be encouraged to pursue the purveyors of the craft’s excellence – and to the ends ...
Flying the Flag
By Joshua Ellison · 11 years ago
One of the major headlines that have dominated the domestic press runs this year has been Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee, the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 60th year on the throne - a feat only ...
Some Fine Ferns
By Joshua Ellison · 12 years ago
Ferns are something of a British institution, being one of the most common members of most of our forest and woodland based eco systems. Ferns are also an extremely diverse family of plants, as they ...
The Veg of Tomorrow, Sown Today
By Joshua Ellison · 12 years ago
Being the month of May, we each of us have an opportunity now to begin sowing new crops in time for a summer harvest, more specifically salad and vegetable crops that, weather willing, we’ll be ...
Bamboozled!
By Joshua Ellison · 12 years ago
A short time ago, in our review about the RHS London flower show, we talked about the value of natural screening in the garden and this week we wanted to devote some more time to ...
The Return of the Butterflies
By Joshua Ellison · 12 years ago
You may remember some time ago we published an article covering the necessity of a healthy butterfly population to the British ecosystem, that due to particularly rainy summers and springs, their numbers had been dampened ...