Welcome to my latest Baby Bio® giveaway. This summer I’m trying out Baby Bio® Outdoor plant food in my garden and allotment, and I've got four prizes of the Baby Bio® Outdoor plant food range up for grabs. Baby Bio® is about more than just indoor plant food, with a new Baby Bio® Outdoor range designed specifically for outdoor plants. I've been feeding all my plants with Baby Bio® Outdoor, and everything is growing like crazy! My containers ...
Review: Robomow Robotic Lawnmower
At this time of year, everything in the garden is growing pretty quickly - and that includes the grass! Our lawn isn’t enormous, but it still requires regular mowing in the Summer, and with the usual chaos of family life it can be hard to find time to look after it properly. We’ve been guilty in the past of leaving it to grow quite long, which makes it difficult to mow and looks pretty messy. Robomow asked us to trial one of their robotic ...
Giving Nature a Home in our Garden: RSPB Big Wild Sleepout & Food for Moths
If you’ve been reading the blog lately, you’ll know that we’re teaming up with the RSPB this year to support their ‘Give nature a home in your garden’ campaign. The campaign aims to address the decline of the UK’s wildlife species by encouraging us all to take small, achievable steps to help nature in our own gardens and green spaces. So far we’ve made our garden more wildlife-friendly by sowing wildflower seeds to attract pollinating insects, ...
Zoflora’s ‘Outstanding Natural Beauty’ Show Garden at Hampton Court Flower Show
Yesterday I visited Hampton Court Flower Show press day as the guest of Zoflora. I was given exclusive access to the show before it opens to the public today, and treated to a hands-on experience of the Zoflora ‘Outstanding Natural Beauty’ Show garden, and a preview of their new fragrance, ‘Green Valley’. What a great start to the week! Zoflora are sponsoring a show garden at Hampton Court for the first time this year. Zoflora are very ...
2. A grow-your-own photographic diary with Baby Bio Outdoor
If you've been reading the blog lately, you'll know that I'm keeping a grow-your-own photographic diary of my allotment this Summer. It's something I've wanted to do for a while now; as well as being a fun way to follow my plants' progress, it will really help me remember and build on the successes for next year. As part of my allotment growing this year I'm using Baby Bio® Outdoor Fruit & Vegetables, to help my plants thrive and produce ...
2. Taking the Big Boost Challenge with Baby Bio
A few weeks ago I started a new garden project with Baby Bio Outdoor®. I'm taking their Big Boost Challenge in my garden this Summer, which involves using Baby Bio Outdoor® for 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 for Flowers & Shrubs is a liquid feed tailored to the needs of flowering plants and shrubs, giving you up to 70% ...
Ideas for creating privacy in a family garden
Do you think of your garden as an outdoor room? At this time of year in particular, our gardens work hard to give us extra space for outdoor dining, family garden games, entertaining, and simply relaxing in the sunshine. Using our gardens more can make us feel the need to create some privacy. Unless your house is situated in a large, detached plot, your garden is likely to be overlooked in some way. Even if you get on ...
Talking family gardening with Shedstore
Last week I had a lovely time chatting with Shedstore about family gardening. My interview was for the 'Garden Life' section of the Shedstore website, which shares articles from throughout the gardening community. Here's what we covered. When did you first form an interest in gardening? When I was about 7 years old; my dad gave me my own little patch at his allotment and I was hooked. I remember loving how hands-on it was, and finding the ...
Giveaway: Baby Bio Outdoor plant food range
If you've been reading the blog lately, you'll know that I'm trying out Baby Bio® Outdoor plant food in my garden and allotment this year. Today I'm giving you the chance to do the same for free, with four prizes of the Baby Bio® Outdoor plant food range up for grabs. You may think of Baby Bio® in relation to plant food for houseplants - remember the curvy little brown bottle? These days Baby Bio® is about more than just indoor plant food, ...
1. A grow-your-own photographic diary with Baby Bio Outdoor
Do you grow any fruit and vegetables? If the answer is 'yes' and you're anything like me, you've probably had varying levels of success with some crops, either because of weather conditions, pests, or just not knowing what you were doing! I've had my allotment for a few years now, and like any new venture it's been a real learning curve. I think the biggest lesson I've learned is that you can't just put a plant into the ground, and expect it ...