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Container plant care with Baby Bio Pour & Feed: 3 month update

August 2, 2017 by Catherine 2 Comments

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How’s your garden looking now that we’re into late summer? We’ve had a good summer weather-wise in the UK - including some crazy heat in late June - and I’ve really enjoyed my garden this year.  I’ve been trying hard to water effectively, and I’ve also been learning more about dealing with plant diseases and plant pests in an effort to keep everything as healthy as possible.  The regular games of football and cricket that go on in our garden ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tips Tagged With: Baby Bio, Containers, Flowers, Garden, Garden tips, gardening, Hanging Baskets, Houseplants, Maintenance, Outdoors, Plant food, Planting, Plants, Top Tips

Using a soakaway to improve land drainage

July 31, 2017 by Catherine Leave a Comment

waterlogged leaves

Does your garden or outdoor space suffer from flooding or get waterlogged in some areas?  If the answer is yes, today's guest post explains how a soakaway might be the answer to the problem. A soakaway is, in a nutshell, a hole that’s dug into the ground and filled with coarse stone and rubble. It’s there to enable surface water to seep back into the earth, and is usually part of a full drainage system; there’s almost always a land drainage pipe ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tips Tagged With: Drainage, Garden, Hard Landscaping, Home, Outdoors, Soakaway, Top Tips

Tips for controlling plant pests

July 11, 2017 by Catherine 1 Comment

provado plant pest control

Have you experienced problems with pests on your garden plants this summer? Whether you garden on a large or small scale, there’s a very good chance that your plants have been affected by pests at some point.  I experience this every year at the allotment, with blackfly on my broad beans and caterpillars on my cabbages, and at home in the garden there’s always an invasion of greenfly on the roses and honeysuckle at the start of the summer.  You ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tips Tagged With: Allotment, Crops, Fruit, Garden, Garden tips, gardening, Homegrown, Houseplants, Outdoors, Pest Control, Pests, Plants, Top Tips

Tips for controlling plant diseases

June 13, 2017 by Catherine 4 Comments

Fungus Fighter Plus roses

Plant disease: it’s not the most glamorous of gardening topics, but it’s an issue that’s highly likely to have affected your garden at some point.  To be honest, in the past I’ve struggled to understand and recognise plant diseases beyond a very basic level.  Yes, I could tell when a plant has suffered from under or over watering, and recognise leaf scorching from bright sun, but beyond that I was pretty much out of my depth! I have noticed ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tips Tagged With: Allotment, Crops, Garden, Garden tips, gardening, Greenhouse, Outdoors, Plant diseases, Plants, Top Tips

The Power of Plants: did you know they can do this?

March 31, 2017 by Catherine Leave a Comment

lavender plants

The title of this post is a little bit of a challenge: just how many health benefits can you think of that plants provide? We can probably all name a few obvious ones quite easily.  First up is the pleasure we get from seeing a beautiful flower or plant; they have a positive effect on our mood and can really help to cheer us up.  Think about how lovely it feels to be given a bunch of flowers and you get the idea.  Then there's the impact ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tips Tagged With: Flowers, Garden, gardening, Home, Houseplants, Plants

Tips for installing a raised bed this spring

January 20, 2017 by Catherine Leave a Comment

raised bed gardening

If you're looking for inspiration on spring garden projects, this guest post from gardening and home repair enthusiast David Miller exploring the world of raised bed gardening is a great place to start. Heading towards spring and the return of warm weather, it’s always fun to think of the different ways we can work to improve our gardens. Whether it’s something as simple as planting a few new bulbs, or something as involved as constructing a ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tips Tagged With: Allotment, Containers, Crops, Flowers, Garden, Garden tips, gardening, Homegrown, Outdoors, Planting, Plants, Raised bed, Top Tips, Vegetables

A gift guide for gardeners with Homesense

December 10, 2016 by Catherine 4 Comments

homesense gardening range

How’s your Christmas shopping going?  I’m almost done; I find the kids so easy to buy for, but the adults are a different matter.  I still have a few grown-up gifts to find, and I’m on the lookout for some less run-of-the-mill ideas; the sort of gift that you wouldn’t necessarily find in every shop.  When I’m searching for this kind of gift, I always make a beeline for Homesense. I love Homesense.  It's a great one-stop shop for home and ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tips Tagged With: Christmas, Garden, gardening, Gifts, Inspiration, Shopping

5. Taking the Big Boost Challenge with Baby Bio

September 12, 2016 by Catherine Leave a Comment

comparing the effects of using baby bio outdoor plant food on summer container plants

Welcome to the final update on my Baby Bio® Big Boost Challenge. This little project has been going for almost four months now, and during that time I've really enjoyed watching the effects of using Baby Bio Outdoor® Flowers & Shrubs on my plants. Baby Bio® Outdoor Flowers & Shrubs is a liquid feed tailored to the needs of flowering plants and shrubs, giving you up to 70% more flowers compared with not feeding.  It aims to support ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tips Tagged With: Baby Bio, Containers, Flowers, Garden, gardening, Plant food, Planting, Plants, Summer, Top Tips

4. Taking the Big Boost Challenge with Baby Bio

August 16, 2016 by Catherine Leave a Comment

comparing the effects of using baby bio outdoor plant food on summer container plants

Have you been following my progress this Summer with my Baby Bio® Big Boost Challenge?  Well it's time for another update. I'm using Baby Bio Outdoor® Flowers & Shrubs to show just what a difference the right plant food can make to your plants' size, health and number of flowers. Baby Bio® Outdoor Flowers & Shrubs is a liquid feed tailored to the needs of flowering plants and shrubs, giving you up to 70% more flowers compared with not ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tips Tagged With: Baby Bio, Containers, Flowers, Garden, gardening, Plant food, Planting, Plants, Summer, Top Tips

3. Taking the Big Boost Challenge with Baby Bio

July 18, 2016 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Welcome to the latest update on my Baby Bio® Big Boost Challenge project. The Big Boost Challenge involves using Baby Bio Outdoor® Flowers & Shrubs to show just what a difference the right plant food can make to your plants' size, health and number of flowers. Baby Bio® Outdoor Flowers & Shrubs is a liquid feed tailored to the needs of flowering plants and shrubs, giving you up to 70% more flowers compared with not feeding.  It aims ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tips Tagged With: Baby Bio, Containers, Crops, Flowers, Fruit, Garden, gardening, Harvest, Homegrown, Plant food, Planting, Plants, Summer, Top Tips, Vegetables

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