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Sowing broad bean seeds into garden soil in Autumn for an early spring crop in the UK

Sow Broad Beans in November: Autumn & Winter Growing Tips 🌱

If you watched Monty Don on BBC Gardeners' World this November, you may have been reminded that gardening doesn't have to stop when the temperatures drop! Broad beans are one of...
Side-by-side comparison of a grey leatherjacket larva and a curled white chafer grub with a brown head

What’s Eating Your Lawn? Leatherjackets and Chafer Grubs Explained

What’s Eating Your Lawn? Leatherjackets and Chafer Grubs Explained Bald patches, loose turf and birds repeatedly pecking at your lawn can all indicate a problem beneath the surface. Two common...
— Charlotte Beaty
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Gardener removing a slug from a young vegetable plant as part of natural slug control

Why Autumn Is Not Too Late to Use Slug Nematodes

Why Autumn Is Not Too Late to Use Slug Nematodes As summer gives way to autumn, it is tempting to think the main gardening season is drawing to a close...
— Charlotte Beaty
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What to Sow in September: Vegetables and Flowers to Grow Now 🌱

What to Sow in September: Vegetables and Flowers to Grow Now 🌱

What to Sow in September: Vegetables & Flowers to Grow Now 🌱 September is a month of change in the garden. The days are beginning to shorten, mornings feel cooler,...
— Charlotte Beaty
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September Segoe UI

Organic Gardening Tips for September

Every day the sun is setting earlier and earlier as September is a crossroad month for seasons. At night the temperatures will start to drop, so be ready to start...
— Charlotte Beaty
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What to Sow in August: Vegetables & Flowers to Grow Now 🌱

What to Sow in August: Vegetables & Flowers to Grow Now 🌱

What to Sow in August: Vegetables & Flowers to Grow Now 🌱 August may feel like the garden is beginning to slow down, especially after the hot and dry summer...
— Charlotte Beaty
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Soil Beneath Our Feet

Looking After The Soil Beneath Our Feet

We can all take the soil beneath our feet for granted. Grass and weeds thrive in it, so surely all our flowering plants, shrubs, fruit and vegetables that we want...
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Nasturtium as a Companion Plant

Nasturtiums - The perfect organic pest control

Nasturtiums are the perfect organic pest control! Flea and cucumber beetles will be tempted away from squash and cucumber plants. Cabbage white butterflies are attracted to their leaves, and they...
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Wildlife Week

Attract wildlife as natural predators

Chemical free tips to rebalance the eco-systems in your garden. Attract wildlife and watch your garden flourish. Once you’ve stopped using pesticides in your garden, it’s important to attract wildlife...
— admin
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May Gardening Advice

Organic Gardening Tips for May

May is a month of planting out, so lets hope the frosts stay away so we can! The dry weather looks set to continue, so make sure you keep watering...
— admin
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Butterfly Education and Awareness Day (BEAD)

Butterflies - provide them with food plants

Chemical free tips to rebalance the eco-systems in your garden. Plant flowers that attract and feed butterflies to increase pollination. Gardens can act as important stepping-stones between nature reserves and other...
— admin
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April Gardening Tips

Organic Gardening Tips for April

The clocks have sprung fowards and the spell of dry weather continues. The garden is slowly coming back to life, and the peak season for sowing seeds has arrived! Don’t...
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Recommended by Lucy Hutchings of @shegrowsveg and author of “Get Up and Grow” and recommended by Anna Greenland of @annagreenland and author of "Grow Easy"