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Gardening Advice


Organic Advice
  about organic gardens About Organic Gardens   calander Calander   composting Composting
 

Learn about organic gardening and the benefits it can have to you and the environment.

 

Our Organic gardening calander, when is the best time to plant those organic carrots.

 

Compost can be the best 'miricle grow' for your garden, and it cuts down on waste too.

                 
  crops guide Crops Guide   featured garden Featured Garden   get started Get Started
 

Our user guide to the best in organic crops.

 

Here we feature a new organic garden each month.

 

Want to know how to get started in organic gardening, we give you a step by step guide.

                 
  pest control Pests   plan an organic garden Plan   organic recipies Recipies
 

Pests won't stay away because you are an organic gardener, so we've found the best 'friendly' methods of getting rid of them.

 

Plan an organic garden with our easy to use guide.

 

Organic food recipies brought to you by our own organic chef.


Houseplants

  Cheese Plant Cheese Plant   poor mans orchid African Violets   propagation Propagation
 

If you have a cheese plant or rubber plant that is about to touch the ceiling and need to take drastic action

 

Propagate African Violets using leaf stem cuttings.

 

We explain how to take cuttings of your favourite house plants.

                 
  Looking after house plants Look After
  origin of houseplants Where do house plants originate   Care for your houseplants Houseplant care
 

Did you under-water or over-water the last plant you had in the house. We show you how to get the best out of your house plants.

 

Every wondered where your house plant came from originally, well now you can find out. This article will also tell you where best to site the plants.

 

 

A comprehensive guide on how to look after your houseplants from potting to re-potting.

                 

Plants

  english rose Garden plants -English Rose   climbers Climbers   Winter colour Get colour in winter
 

One of the most popular garden plants, here you can find out why. Tips on selection and caring for roses.

 

What plants make good climbers and how best to use them.

 

Hints and tips on which plants to use to get colour in your garden in winter.
In association with GoodMorning TV.

                 
  mistletoe Mistletoe   moving large shrubs Move Large Shrubs   All year colour All Year Colour
 

Christmas isn't the same without it, but why does it have such a mystery.
We show how to grow it and explain some of the stories behind it.

 

We show you the best ways to move those large awkward plants.

 

We explain how to use bulbs to provide all year colour in your garden.

                 
  propagation Propagation.
  Pruning Prune   Border effects Blue and White Borders
 

Increase the number of plants in your garden simply by splitting the ones you have.

 

The 'no panic' article on pruning gives a quick guide to the best pruning techniques.

 

Gardening styles come and go them seem to come back again. We show you how to create blue and white borders.

                 
  Controlling weeds Common weed control   Wisteria Wisteria   Growing Dahlias Growing dahlias
 

Some weeds can be a real problem in the garden. The Garden Advice team explain how to deal with the 3 most difficult.

 

To grow wisteria successfully you need to recreate these conditions in the original planting and the yearly maintenance.

 

 

J.R.GOTT

gives us an overview of how to grow dahlias, and a more detailed explanation in the information sheet.

                 
  Removing knotweed Removing Knotweed   Monkshood Monkshood   Propagating by softwood cuttings Propagate softwood cuttings
 

Knotweed is one of the hardest weeds to remove from a garden. The Garden Advice team explain how to do it.

 

Read about the plant that can kill the unwary.

 

We explain how to propagate garden shrubs by softwood cuttings.

                 
        Trimming hedges Trimming Hedges      
     

If you are considering planting any form of hedge you will undoubtedly have the requirement for it establish itself quickly to meet its given objective.

   
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