How to make your own compost – and why we all should
As any gardener will tell you, the compost heap is the beating heart of a garden. The cherished ‘black gold’…
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As any gardener will tell you, the compost heap is the beating heart of a garden. The cherished ‘black gold’…
Many of us grow an abundance of wonderful crops for harvesting over summer and autumn. In the meantime, winter vegetables…
By Richard Chivers It’s felt a lot like summer over the last few weeks. The weather has just been glorious.…
By Richard Chivers Snow dominated March. And although it feels like we’ve lost an entire chunk of the gardening season,…
By Richard Chivers For gardeners, the arrival of March arouses a sensation others savour only at Christmas. Winter is always…
Dobies Group Scheme offers generous discounts to allotment groups, garden clubs and societies Members of amateur gardening clubs can benefit from…
All too often you slave away in the garden or allotment and feel that the ongoing chores are endless –…
I am writing this post just one day after the one I posted yesterday, on Sunday 26th May. Only because…
Snow over much of the country seems to be more prevalent this winter than in I remember in the past…
Well the snow has gone, around here at least, but with closely packed isobars and a complex series of warm…