How to keep your vegetables thriving in a heatwave
Keeping our vegetable gardens or allotments alive and thriving during the worst that summer can throw at it can feel like a battle. With UK temperatures hitting record highs during…
Keeping our vegetable gardens or allotments alive and thriving during the worst that summer can throw at it can feel like a battle. With UK temperatures hitting record highs during…
May is a busy time in the allotment or veg patch. With temperatures rising, plants are growing apace and need more and more attention with watering, hardening off, potting up…
Many of us grow an abundance of wonderful crops for harvesting over summer and autumn. In the meantime, winter vegetables are too often overlooked! However, there is no reason you…
Give Back This Black Friday! Dobies is pleased to donate 5% of all sales today to the Greenfingers Charity. Greenfingers is a National Charity that supports life-limited children who spend…
Building Resilience in our Gardens: Looking Backwards to See the Way Forward Guest blog: in an extract from her new book, The Climate Change Garden, author Kim Stoddart explains how…
Dutch bulbs are highly sought after all across the globe and most of the bulbs that are planted in gardens around the world are Dutch-grown. Flower bulb cultivation was introduced…
With an emphasis on wellbeing, this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show is highlighting the benefits of growing for goodness and the ways our gardens can benefit mind, body and soul.…
We were excited enough about Chelsea already, but when we saw the beautiful sculpture championing bees designed by McQueens Flowers, we were thrilled. We’ve been working hard to introduce ranges…
Mid- to late-May is the perfect time of year to treat your garden to a traditional ‘Chelsea Chop’, and the Dobies gardeners have been showing us how it’s done up…
Our team of horti experts travel the globe all year round and they’ve made an exciting discovery in Germany which we’re thrilled to be sharing with the gardening nation here…