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Win a Seedball mini wildflower meadow pot set

September 3, 2021 by Catherine 90 Comments

This is a collaborative post in partnership with Seedball Welcome to a lovely new giveaway. If you'd like to explore a quick and easy way to make your garden more wildlife-friendly, this is perfect for you :) I'm teaming up with the lovely people at Seedball to give away four sets of their Mini Meadow Pots, which are a super-simple way to grow wildflowers in even the smallest of spaces. Why you should plant wildflowers There are ...

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Gardening in January: jobs to tackle this month

December 21, 2020 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Welcome to your one-stop resource for gardening in January. If you always feel like you don’t have enough time for gardening, or just need some guidance on what to focus on each month, this is the series for you! You can check out my garden jobs for every other month in this post. Gardening in January The start of a new year always puts me into planning mode, and the garden is no exception. There's something so uplifting about looking ...

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Gardening in December: jobs to tackle this month

November 26, 2020 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Welcome to your one-stop resource for gardening in December. If you always feel like you don’t have enough time for gardening, or just need some guidance on what to focus on each month, this is the series for you! You can check out my garden jobs for every other month in this post. Gardening in December If ever there was a month when the garden takes a back seat, it's December. Christmas prep, bad weather and less daylight all make it ...

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Gardening in November: jobs to tackle this month

November 1, 2020 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Welcome to your one-stop resource for gardening in November. If you always feel like you don’t have enough time for gardening, or just need some guidance on what to focus on each month, this is the series for you! You can check out my garden jobs for every other month in this post. Gardening in November This month, my garden seems to have finally accepted that it's autumn, and started the process of shutting down in earnest. In terms ...

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Gardening in October: jobs to tackle this month

October 23, 2020 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Welcome to your one-stop resource for gardening in October. If you always feel like you don’t have enough time for gardening, or just need some guidance on what to focus on each month, this is the series for you! You can check out my garden jobs for every other month in this post. Gardening in October We’re heading towards the quietest time on the gardening calendar, when light is limited, most plants are dormant, and the weather isn’t ...

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Gardening in September: jobs to tackle this month

September 3, 2020 by Catherine Leave a Comment

autumn leaves

Welcome to your one-stop resource for gardening in September. If you always feel like you don’t have enough time for gardening, or just need some gardening tips and guidance on what to focus on each month, this is the series for you! You can check out my garden jobs for every other month in this post. Gardening in September The arrival of autumn slows things down in the garden; plants are starting to shut down, lots of crops are coming ...

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Gardening in August: jobs to tackle this month

August 26, 2020 by Catherine Leave a Comment

orange flower border

Welcome to your one-stop resource for gardening in August. If you always feel like you don’t have enough time for gardening, or just need some guidance on what to focus on each month, this is the series for you! You can check out my garden jobs for every other month in this post. Gardening in August We’re at that stage of summer where all the hard work in the garden should be really paying off, in the form of healthy plants and lots of ...

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Gardening in July: jobs to tackle this month

June 26, 2020 by Catherine Leave a Comment

yellow coneflowers

Welcome to your one-stop resource for gardening in July. If you always feel like you don’t have enough time for gardening, or just need some guidance on what to focus on each month, this is the series for you! You can check out my garden jobs for every other month in this post. Gardening in July The 'little and often' approach to gardening that I talked about last month is definitely still a good way to go in July. Plants - and weeds! - ...

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Gardening in June: jobs to tackle this month

June 3, 2020 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Welcome to your one-stop resource for quick and easy gardening jobs for June. If you always feel like you don’t have enough time for gardening, or just need some guidance on what to focus on each month, this is the series for you! You can check out my garden jobs for every other month in this post. Gardening in June With everything growing so fast this month, I think the ‘little and often’ approach is best for gardening in June. Keeping ...

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Quick and easy gardening jobs for each month

March 19, 2020 by Catherine Leave a Comment

Welcome to your one-stop resource for quick and easy gardening jobs each month. If you always feel like you don't have enough time for gardening, or just need some guidance on what to focus on each month, this is the series for you! Each month I share quick and easy gardening jobs to help you stay on top of things when time is tight. The idea here is to stop being daunted by a huge garden to-do list, and instead focus on the key jobs that ...

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Hi, I’m Catherine. Welcome to Growing Family, a top UK home & garden blog sharing ideas, inspiration and tips for making the most of busy family life, indoors and out.
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