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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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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 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
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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
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Dobies Magic Bean Competition Results!

August 20, 2014

Dobies prize winning beans competition. Winners announced in true pantomime style!

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Brittany Observed (or parts of it)

September 16, 2013

Quintessentially France I have just returned from ten days in Brittany – wonderful weather and over 700 miles of touring, door to door. Camera and journal / sketchbook allowed me…

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Open your eyes !

August 29, 2013

In the last of my posts on photography in the garden, I want to encourage you to keep your eyes open! Open to the possibilities that lie all around you.…

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Progress in our ‘Dobies’ garden plots

November 30, 2012

We’ve gone from four inches of rain in two days to nights of heavy frost and freezing temperatures. But on the good days in between I was actually able to…

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Advantages of Grafted Vegetables

June 10, 2012

I have to admit when first learning some while back of the existence of Dobies grafted vegetable plants to being a little dubious. Not being a horticulturalist left me wondering…

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Vegetable Heaven

May 10, 2012

Back at the ‘Beat the Spiralling Cost of Food’ Dobies of Devon display at the Malvern Spring Gardening Show this morning (stand OS564 in the Plant Pavilions opposite the Wye…

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