Garden Articles List

 

Gardening with children

 

Gardening with children - Tips for encouraging children to be gardeners

 

Wildlife gardening for children:

 

- Helping birds in the garden

 

- Frogs in the garden

 

- Gardens for ladybirds

 

- Gardens for hoverflies

 

- Bees in the garden

 

- Gardens for butterflies

 

- Mammals in the garden

 

- Spiders in the garden

 

Check your bonfire for hedgehogs before Bonfire Night!

 

Propagation, planting and plant care

 

Garden Plant Information - Alphabetical list

 

Planting a bare root tree

 

Softwood cuttings

 

How to take Semi-ripe cuttings

 

How to Propagate bulbs

 

Air layering - a practical guide

 

Planting hanging baskets - part 1

 

Planting hanging baskets - part 2

 

Shrub care in winter - includes a list of shrubs that will benefit from winter protection

 

 

Growing your own vegetables

 

Vegetables you can sow in late summer

 

Growing Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) in the UK

 

Growing potatoes in containers

 

Growing potatoes for Christmas dinner

 

My first experience of growing tomatoes

 

Parasitic wasps in the vegetable garden - beneficial wasps in the garden and how to tell if you've got them

 

Grow your own vegetables - About the project

 

The Supply of Food

 

Kitchen Garden Journal

 

Miscellaneous

 

A Chinese puzzle solved - Pilea peperomioides

 

Plant blindness - why do some people not see plants?

 

Botanical words and definitions

 

Understanding botanical names

 

Trialling the digging Spork

 

 

 

 

Recipes - preserving the harvest

 

Some notes on recipe quantities and conversions

 

Making Kimchi with cabbage and courgettes - dealing with a glut from the garden.

 

Chilli sauce recipe - making chilli sauce, a new pleasure.

 

Tomato and chilli relish

 

 

Seed saving

 

Collecting, drying and storing seed

 

Saving tomato seeds

Gardening Projects

Composting Toilet Project

 

Building a composting toilet - videos

 

Building a Straw Bale Composting Toilet

 

Straw Bale Composting Toilet - Straw Bale Walls

 

Straw Bale Compost Toilet - Preparing to Thatch the Roof

 

Straw Bale Composting Toilet - Thatching the Roof

 

Composting Toilet - Compost Toilet Box & Ready to Use

 

 

 

Growing for showing

 

This is an article by Digger Evans that explores some of the ins and outs of growing vegetables for the show bench

 

Growing blanch leeks for the show bench

 

 

 

General garden subjects

 

Using salvage in the garden - 15 ideas for using 'junk'

 

A bit about the garden and how it's developed

 

Finding a garden specialist

 

 

 

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Published: 05-02-2005

Updated:   01-07-2014