Tips of the Month/Recipes of the week

It’s been quite a frustrating year in the garden for most people due to the cold, damp spring and huge number of slugs and snails about. Even we had poor germination with our carrots and leeks. Hopefully though by now some of your crops are coming on and you’ve started to reap the rewards of
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Taking Care of Your Summer Garden With summer in full swing now is the time to put your feet up and enjoy the fruits of your labours with a glass of wine or gin & tonic. BBQ season is definitely upon us and it’s great to spend our time outside enjoying our beautiful gardens. With
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To create your hanging basket you will need: A good quality compost Hanging basket (wire or wicker) Hanging basket liner (moss, coco or synthetic) Slow release feed Water retention granules Trailing plants and upright geranium, fuchsia or similar Fig 1. Materials required Preparing the basket – For solid baskets start by filling your basket three
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Planting Bedding Plants Outdoors With most of the cold weather now, hopefully, behind us, many of us are looking to get our bedding plants outside and established ready for the warm summer months. One of the most common reasons plants don’t perform well outside initially is from poor transplanting and planting techniques so we thought
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Growing food is my favourite thing about owning a garden. I love getting fresh veg and fruit straight from the ground. However, like many of you, I really dislike having to dig the beds over each year. Like many of you I imagine that this is something that, due to the perils of time, also
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With spring in the air you can start thinking about gardening again.  March is the perfect month to start seed sowing. With over 500 varieties of flower and vegetable seeds in stock we are certain to have what you are looking for.  We have a great range of propagation equipment, composts, seed trays and more; everything
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The rain seems to be in full flow this month and keeping dry outside is seeming to be a bit of an uphill struggle. However, spring will soon be on its way and now is a great time to start sowing some tasty spring and summer vegetables. With that in mind we decided to take
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After a wet and mild start to the winter temperatures are finally starting to drop. With the cold days and nights drawing us inside, warm, hearty food is the order of the day and for us Brits household stews and soups are the food of choice as they are easy to make, warming and can
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We now have Seville Oranges in stock – the quintessential marmalade orange. Making preserves is one of our favourite winter pastimes and the final product is always better for the labour of love we have made! So today we thought we could share some fantastic homemade marmalade recipes. The best thing about making marmalade is
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We will have all the popular varieties of Seed Potatoes such as Pentland Javelin, Wilja, Cara, King Edward and many more available from the 25th January.  Never grown your own potatoes?  It’s simple, you can even grow them in pots and containers!  Find out more…   How To Grow Your Own Potatoes   PLANNING THE
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We now only have a small number of Tulip & Daffodil bulbs left in stock, so for those of you who love to see the first colours of spring in the garden pop in this weekend before they’re gone!

Now is the time to plant overwintering Garlic, Onions & Shallots. Planted now, you will be able to lift them earlier than spring planted varieties. Also the garlic will have a fuller flavour!