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Eco gardening: sustainable gardening tips for greener gardens

July 24, 2020 by Catherine 1 Comment

How much do you know about eco gardening?  It’s certainly a big issue in the gardening world right now, with high-profile gardeners and TV shows championing the benefits of sustainable gardening. What is eco gardening? Eco gardening is all about minimising human interference, and using natural resources and processes.  This doesn’t mean you have to allow your garden to become a wilderness, rather that you should aim to reduce ...

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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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Japanese knotweed: How close is too close?

December 19, 2019 by Catherine 1 Comment

Collaborative post Are you worried about the impact of Japanese Knotweed on your property? This article by Stuart Snape, Managing Partner at Graham Coffey & Co. Solicitors, explains what you need to look out for, how to deal with Japanese knotweed, and your legal rights should this invasive plant become a problem. What is Japanese Knotweed? Japanese knotweed - also known by it's Latin name, Fallopia Japonica - is a feared ...

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Autumn gardening tips

September 26, 2019 by Catherine 2 Comments

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Collaborative post If you’ve got green fingers, chances are summer is the season when you spend the most time working in the garden. In a lot of ways it’s the perfect season for gardening: the days are long, the sun is (hopefully) plentiful, and as long as you’re watering them regularly, your lovely plants are finding it easy to thrive. As autumn approaches, our thoughts tend to turn towards making the inside of our homes cosy for the ...

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Putting Job done® Tough Ready to Use Weedkiller to the test

April 25, 2018 by Catherine Leave a Comment

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You may have seen my recent post on weed control, which shared my top tips for helping you manage pesky garden weeds.  One of my tips was to use a weedkiller product to deal with tough, problem weeds, and I used Job done® Tough Ready to Use Weedkiller, which proved to be very effective.  In this post, I’m going to put this product to the test against a leading competitor, to see how well it performs. In my experience, a weedkiller product is a ...

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My top weed control tips

March 29, 2018 by Catherine Leave a Comment

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Weeds: the garden problem we all love to hate, right? Whatever type, size or style of garden you have, weeds will undoubtedly be a part of it.  And dealing with those weeds will have probably had you grumbling at some point.  I do think there’s a certain amount of satisfaction in transforming a weedy patch into a lovely clear chunk of soil or grass, but if you told me I never had to do any weeding again I’d still be delighted! Unfortunately, ...

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