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How To Grow Herbal Tea A soothing cuppa has restored the spirits of the Amateur Gardening team on more than a few occasions. But maybe it feels like a leap of faith to swap your PG Tips for something fresh and fancy from your own garden or window box. Until quite…
How To Grow Runner Beans Runner beans are a popular vegetable staple for good reason – they are versatile, reliable cropping plants, and a striking garden features with prolific petals and heart-shaped leaves curling around crafty frames and supports. Many bean growers will have been sowing from seed indoors as…
How To Make A Bee Hotel To paraphrase a song sampled by Primal Scream, we want a bee free to do what he (or she) wants to do. And one of the best ways to invite passing bees to stick around long enough to pollinate your plants is to give…
How To Grow Avocado We can’t promise you can easily grow your own avocados – these tropical trees are unlikely to crop in our temperate climate – but don’t let that stop you! Growing an avocado plant from a stone is a fun project: germinating the seed is easy, and…
This young late-summer-flowering clematis has not been regularly pruned, so I’m cutting back old growth to the topmost buds. It will be pruned again after flowering in autumn © Time Inc Clematis mingle well with existing climbers and wall shrubs, taking up little extra space. They can deliver flowers every month…
Beat Fruit And Veg Pests If you leave big numbers of pests unchecked on the veggie plot you’ll soon regret it, says Lucy. Many have a rapid breeding rate and sneaky success tactics. It may not be enough to get rid of them by encouraging beneficial creatures like ladybirds and lacewings.…
Weatherproof Your Plot In times of a changing climate, we’re not sure whether summer will bring us deluge or dearth. But come rain or shine, we can take action to ‘weatherproof’ our fruit and veg via careful soil management, says Lucy. Protect From The Wet So you want to…
Spring Care Lawn Tips When it comes to spring lawn care there are three key jobs need doing. These are scarifying, spiking, and top-dressing. Scarifying: this removes moss and ‘thatch’ – small pieces of dead grass and other debris. Spiking: this improves drainage and gets air down to the roots of the…
Make Your Garden Greener Gardeners are natural custodians of their own little piece of the planet, and there’s never been a better time to be the change you want to see. As the Soil Association highlights the benefits of organic gardening, here are five easy tips you can follow to…
Keep Your Citrus In Shape Overwinter your lemon tree in a greenhouse If you are growing citrus trees in pots they will have loved the Mediterranean-levels of heat and sunshine we experienced for most of this summer. Our small lemon tree overwintered in the greenhouse, and then several months…
