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Marigolds: A Highlight of the Autumn Garden

Cheerful marigolds, with their brilliant color combinations of red, orange and yellow, are one of the bright lights of the autumn garden. Here’s what you need to know to grow and save seeds of marigolds in your garden.

Marigolds: A Highlight of the Autumn Garden

Informational31 March 2022

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What’s in a handful of soil? Understanding the Soil Food Web

Healthy soil is the foundation for growing the best vegetables, herbs and flowers. Understanding the soil food web can help gardeners build and manage great soil.

What’s in a handful of soil? Understanding the Soil Food Web

Informational8 March 2022

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Top Tips for Growing Sensational Sweetpeas

Bunches of sweet peas bring memories of fresh winter and spring days and a delicious scent that cannot be matched by any perfume bottle! Plant your seeds this St Patrick’s Day for some delightfully fragranced blooms for your flower vases.

Top Tips for Growing Sensational Sweetpeas

Informational5 March 2022

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Growing Sorrel: A Tangy Leafy Green for Your Garden

Use extensively in French cuisine, sorrel is a perennial grown as a cut-and-come-again leafy green and treasured for its health properties. Its leaves have a tangy, slightly zesty taste so are often used to add a hit of flavour to salads and other dishes.

Growing Sorrel: A Tangy Leafy Green for Your Garden

Informational25 February 2022

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Taking a Summer Holiday? How to Help Your Garden Survive Your Absence

When you take a summer holiday, your garden will need to look after itself for a week or two. Here's how to help it survive and thrive until you return.

Taking a Summer Holiday? How to Help Your Garden Survive Your Absence

Informational7 December 2021

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A Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Plant Families

There's an almost endless variety of edible plants to grow at home, but the most common veggie patch residents belong to just a few broader families. This article outlines the key characteristics of the most popular plant families.

A Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Plant Families

Informational16 November 2021

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The Best Herbs and Medicinal Plants to Grow for Your Chickens

Happy, healthy chooks provide more eggs for the breakfast table as well as being easier to care for. Supplementing their normal feed with various herbs and medicinal plants can have hugely beneficial effects, and this article suggests some plants to try.

The Best Herbs and Medicinal Plants to Grow for Your Chickens

Informational31 October 2021

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Plants to Grow to Supplement Your Chickens’ Feed

Chickens love to forage on all kinds of veggie patch scraps and kitchen trimmings. But you can vary their diet even more by growing some plants specifically as chicken feed supplements. Here are some of the easiest and best ideas to try.

Plants to Grow to Supplement Your Chickens’ Feed

Informational21 September 2021

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Planning Your Spring and Summer Veggie Patch

Growing veggies is fun and rewarding, but to get the most out of your garden a little planning goes a long way. This article explains what to consider when planning your veggie patch for the spring and summer ahead.

Planning Your Spring and Summer Veggie Patch

Informational30 July 2021

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Why a Hori Hori Knife Could Become Your Favourite Hand Tool

The hori hori knife is a versatile hand tool that combines cutting, digging, and measuring in one handy implement. Read how it works and what it can be used for.

Why a Hori Hori Knife Could Become Your Favourite Hand Tool

Informational8 June 2021

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Heliotropism: Why Some Sun-Loving Plants Track Across the Sky

Sunflowers are famed not only for their beauty, but also for the way the flowers track the sun across the sky over a day. This behaviour is known as heliotropism, and this article describes why it happens.

Heliotropism: Why Some Sun-Loving Plants Track Across the Sky

Informational8 January 2021

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Vivipary: An Unusual, Unsettling, and Fascinating Phenomenon

If your tomatoes, strawberries, and other plants are suddenly developing weird offshoots from the fruits, there's probably no need to worry. It's likely to be a harmless example of what's known as vivipary.

Vivipary: An Unusual, Unsettling, and Fascinating Phenomenon

Informational15 December 2020

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