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Maximise your space: a guide to vertical and small-space gardening

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How to plant hanging baskets
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How to plant hanging baskets
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roses
How to prune roses
Bulb planting depth guide
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Bulb planting depth guide
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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
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Water saving tips for your garden – infographic
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Sweetcorn Fresh from the Garden

May 10, 2016

Sweetcorn must be one of the most rewarding crops to grow as the taste of freshly picked cobs is so very much better than anything shop bought. If you haven’t…

Flowers

Cut Flowers for the Home

April 27, 2016

There’s something special about bringing the outside in and filling vases, pots and jars with cut flowers you’ve grown yourself. You may have a designated cutting patch or grow plants…

General herbs

Home-grown Herbal Tea

April 20, 2016

A mug of builder’s tea may be a traditional kick start to the day but more of us than ever are now drinking herbal tea. And what can better than…

Vegetables

Why Grow Grafted Plants?

April 13, 2016

Why grow grafted plants when a wider range of fruit and vegetables is available to grow from seed or from ordinary plants? The simple answer is to get the best…

food & recipes General

Aubergine ‘Meatball’

April 6, 2016

Aubergine ‘Meatball’ well deserves its place on the cover of our latest catalogue. Our Love the Taste catalogue, featuring a wonderful range of tasty fruit and vegetable plants, should have…

General Peppers & Chillies

Scotch Bonnets for Easter

March 24, 2016

Scotch bonnets are possibly of more interest to our customers than Easter bonnets so let’s have a look at this round, red fiery lovely. Originating in the Caribbean, Scotch Bonnet…

Vegetables

Sweet Potatoes Available Now

March 16, 2016

I remember a time when we here at Dobies didn’t sell sweet potatoes but we then started to receive requests from customers and so, after some research, we listened and…

Flowers General

Indian Marigold Kushi Mix

March 9, 2016

Mention Indian Marigold to many people and the conversation will turn to exotic hotels or cheap rubber gloves, but it is the flower that this blog will focus on.

Vegetables

St David’s Day Leeks

March 1, 2016

Happy St David’s Day to all our Welsh and non-Welsh customers. The 1st of March is the day on which St David is remembered, the Celtic monk who spread Christianity…

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Chocolate Flowers

February 14, 2016

Valentine’s Day tends to be all about flowers and chocolate. Oh, and love of course, that features too. In the main the flowers tend to be roses, which are also…

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