Advice
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14th June 2026
How to Water Your Garden in Summer UK
Knowing how to water your garden in summer in the UK can make the difference between plants that thrive and plants that quietly struggle. Most gardeners water too often, at …
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10th June 2026
How to Attract Pollinators to Your Garden: Build a Habitat, Not a Highlight Reel
How to attract pollinators is a question most UK gardeners think they’ve already answered, buy a bee hotel, plant some lavender, done. The reality is that the UK has lost over 50% of …
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8th June 2026
Companion Planting UK: The Complete Guide
Companion planting in the UK is one of the most effective tools an experienced gardener has and one of the most underused. Done well, it reduces pest pressure, improves soil health and can measurably …
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4th June 2026
How to Get Rid of Aphids Organically UK
Knowing how to get rid of aphids organically in the UK is something every experienced gardener eventually needs to understand properly, because the chemical shortcut causes far more damage than the …
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1st June 2026
June Gardening Jobs UK: Your Organic Checklist
June gardening jobs in the UK demand more of you than any other month and in the best possible way. The garden is building momentum, the soil is warm, the pests …
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15th May 2026
When to Plant Tomatoes Outside in the UK: The Real Answer
When to plant tomatoes outside in the UK is the most-searched grow-your-own question every spring and most of the answers circulating online are either too vague to be useful or …
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11th May 2026
How to Get Rid of Slugs Organically
How to get rid of slugs organically is one of the most searched questions in British gardening and unfortunately, most of the answers circulating online are wrong. Eggshells, copper tape, …
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8th May 2026
May Gardening Jobs: A Week-by-Week Guide
May gardening jobs separate the gardeners who react from the gardeners who plan. This is the month where timing is everything to the last frost threshold, the Chelsea Chop, succession sowing and …
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7th May 2026
The Benefits of Organic Coir Mulch Mats: More Than Just a Weed Barrier
The benefits of organic coir mulch mats stretch well beyond keeping weeds down although they do that superbly. Lay one around a plant and you’re simultaneously conserving water, insulating roots, improving soil health and giving yourself a …
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20th April 2026
What Are Organic Coir Mulch Mats? The Low-Effort Way to a Weed-Free Garden
Organic coir mulch mats are exactly what they sound like: flat, circular mats made from organic coconut fibre and natural latex, laid around plants to block weeds, lock in moisture, insulate roots and …
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15th April 2026
What Are Soap Nut Shells? Nature’s Answer to Laundry Detergent
What are soap nut shells? They are the dried husks of a fruit that grows wild in the foothills of the Himalayas and they have been quietly cleaning clothes across Asia for …
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1st April 2026
April Gardening Jobs: A Week-by-Week Guide for Experienced Gardeners
April gardening jobs don’t wait for permission. Day length is pushing past 13 hours by mid-month, soil temperatures in most of the UK are reliably above 7°C and everything you sow or plant now …
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23rd March 2026
How To Start A Bumblebee Colony
How to start a bumblebee colony is one of those gardening questions that sounds complicated but is, in practice, wonderfully straightforward — and enormously rewarding. Bumblebees are among the most …
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18th March 2026
The Benefits of Mycorrhizal Fungi
The benefits of mycorrhizal fungi have been quietly working beneath our feet for more than 500 million years — long before gardeners were gardening! This remarkable natural organism forms a …
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9th March 2026
What is Mycorrhizal Fungi? And Why Your Garden Needs It!
What is Mycorrhizal fungi? We’ll tell you! It’s a natural organism that has existed for more than 500 million years but it has never been more essential in modern gardening. …
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