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Small space gardening: Best organic vegetables for containers

May 6, 2026
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No-dig organic gardening for beginners

May 4, 2026
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How to Create a Wildlife-Friendly Garden

May 3, 2026
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Companion plants for organic vegetable growing

March 20, 2026
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Five easy-grow organic vegetables for beginners 

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Small space gardening: Best organic vegetables for containers
General Organic seed and plant growing Rob Smith Vegetables
Small space gardening: Best organic vegetables for containers
No-dig organic gardening for beginners
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No-dig organic gardening for beginners
How to Create a Wildlife-Friendly Garden
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How to Create a Wildlife-Friendly Garden
Companion plants for organic vegetable growing
General Organic seed and plant growing Rob Smith Vegetables
Companion plants for organic vegetable growing
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Sweet Pea Care & Maintenance
Tomato ‘Veranda Red’ – Plant Care & Growing Advice
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Tomato ‘Veranda Red’ – Plant Care & Growing Advice
Growing Herbs in Pots: Top Tips for a Container Herb Garden
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Growing Herbs in Pots: Top Tips for a Container Herb Garden
Grow Your Own Delicious Berries and Currants with Dobies
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Grow Your Own Delicious Berries and Currants with Dobies
Water saving tips for your garden – infographic
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Water saving tips for your garden – infographic
How to grow lilies
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How to grow lilies
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Christmas General

Dobies Gardening Quiz Answers

December 29, 2016

Here’s hoping you enjoyed a special Christmas and found time to complete the 2016 Dobies Gardening Quiz. Interested to know how well you did? Then checkout the answers below and…

Christmas General

Dobies Christmas Gardening Quiz

December 22, 2016

The Dobies Christmas Gardening Quiz is perfect for when there’s nothing on the TV and its too cold to go for a walk. Just settle down in a comfy chair…

Christmas

Hellebores Niger, The Christmas Rose

December 7, 2016

Hellebores must be one of the very best winter plants. With tough, evergreen leaves they simply shrug off frost and snow and push up their stunning flowers regardless.

Allotment advice General

Dobies Group Scheme Offers Discounts

November 22, 2016

Dobies Group Scheme offers generous discounts to allotment groups, garden clubs and societies Members of amateur gardening clubs can benefit from the generous discounts offered by the Dobies Group Scheme.…

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Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Rhubarb!3

November 15, 2016

Rhubarb is almost indestructible and once established will become your most reliable cropping spring vegetable. Because it so often eaten as a pud we tend to think of rhubarb as…

Vegetables

Dobies Vegetable Garden Planner

November 9, 2016

Dobies Vegetable Garden Planner is the best way to plan your vegetable garden or allotment. Those wet days when you know it’s best to keep off the garden are the…

Flowers General

Overwintering Dahlias

October 25, 2016

Overwintering dahlias is worth doing correctly to ensure that next year you can again enjoy the colourful blooms. Dependant on whereabouts you live your dahlias are probably looking pretty untidy…

Flowers General

Flower Arranging with Rob Smith

October 11, 2016

Cut Flower Arranging There are not many better reasons for growing your own flowers than to create your own cut flower arrangements. With the Rob Smith range of cut flowers…

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Vegetable Seed for 2016

October 1, 2016

Our carefully selected range of flower and vegetable seed for the 2016 season is now available. In this blog I’ll concentrate on the exciting new vegetable seeds that have been…

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Selecting New Fruit Trees

September 13, 2016

Selecting new fruit trees can be tricky as there are so many varieties, shapes and sizes. Many varieties are long-lived so it is important to make the right choice. Your…

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