One of the most rewarding aspects of using compost tea is the ability to brew your own, ensuring that you're providing your plants with the freshest and most potent mixture possible. To create a ...

Tribune Happy New Year! My New Year’s wish is for nice, slow, soaking rainfalls to help our new plants establish and our established plants thrive. What’s your garden ...

Fill pots with fresh peat-free multi-purpose compost or if you're growing shrubs or long-term plants, use a soil-based John Innes compost. There are peat and peat-free versions, and both are easy ...

For a flourishing vegetable garden, mulch is essential. Here is what to consider when choosing mulch for your garden and how ...

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The secret to a lush, vibrant garden without breaking the bank or harming the environment lies in good homemade fertilisers.

Pelargoniums: plant weight and size 45%; flowering 35%; health 20%. Potatoes: yield 40%; tuber size 40%; skin and tuber quality 20%. What are the different types of compost? There are two main types ...

For gardeners who want to reduce their peat use, Gardening Which? recommends either sieving a good quality peat-free one, or buying a small bag of peat-based compost for sowing and then using a ...

HAPPY NEW YEAR — may all your gardens be weed free and your flowers and bushes grow as fast as the horse tail.

For instance, you can use all the biomass from your summer garden—all the vegetable and flower plants you were going to compost. Grass clippings are good input for this layer, as is manure.