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Gardening: Feed the birds Dec 17 2011

HOW MANY plants have you got in your garden that are providing food for birds at the moment?Read

Gardening: Some Christmas crackers for you Dec 17 2011

What’s brown and sticky? A stick!Read

Gardening: Why gardening in the UK is the best Dec 17 2011

WHEN you talk to gardeners from other parts of the world as I did a few weeks ago, one theme seems to show up in the conversation – ‘you are so lucky to live and garden in the UK.’Read

Gardening: Fruit and veg update Dec 17 2011

_ If you have any young crops under glass, make sure that the glass is as clean as possible to let in the light.Read

Gardening: Dates for your diary Dec 17 2011

1 AN exciting new range of products is now on offer, to help you take advantage of the rainwater that cascades off the roof of your house every time it rains. Rain Garden Kits are designed to take that wonderful soft rain water that helps us grow a wide range of plants in our gardens and direct it into one or several new garden features. The company has brought together suppliers of rain butts, easy-fit wooden ponds and wooden planters and much more to create a whole system of garden irrigation and growing that is ideal for the small urban and suburban garden. For more details on this innovative and positive range of products why not visit www.raingardenkits.co.ukRead

Gardening: Spice up your Christmas Dec 10 2011

WITH all the cooking programmes on television these days, there is no excuse for not herbing and spicing up your Christmas food for you and your family.Read

Gardening: My diary Dec 10 2011

_ Rain Garden kits – an exciting new range of products is now on offer to help you take advantage of the rainwater that cascades off the roof of your house every time it rains. Rain Garden Kits are designed to take that wonderful soft rain water that helps us grow a wide range of plants in our gardens and direct it into one or several new garden features. The company has brought together suppliers of rain butts, easy-fit wooden ponds and wooden planters and much more to create a whole system of garden irrigation and growing that is ideal for the small urban and suburban garden. For more details on this innovative and positive range of products why not visit www.raingardenkits.co.uk.Read

Gardening: Fruit and veg for Christmas Dec 10 2011

1Vegetables – don’t pick your sprouts until Christmas morning to ensure that fully fresh flavour. Check through all your stored vegetables and remove any that are rotten to the dustbin as well as picking out the best carrots, parsnips, onions and potatoes for your Christmas dinner. Check through your seed box and throw away old and half-used packets to leave space for the new seasons delivery in January. New season onions can be sown under heated glass anytime from the end of December onwards – are you ready?Read

Gardening: A Mexican wonder – Poinsettia Dec 10 2011

VISIT any sub-tropical part of the world and the chances are that, depending upon the season of your visit, you will see huge bushes of Euphorbia pulcherrima, up to 3 metres (10’) in height in the gardens and grounds of hotels and apartment complexes.Read

Gardening: Our expert Graham Porter advises on spotted Bramley apples, Leylandii Cypress aphids and compost worm problems Dec 03 2011

In this month’s questions we have got spotted Bramley’s Seedling apples with strange pin pricks, the dreaded x Cupressocyparis Leylandii going brown and worms that don’t want to eat compost!Read

Gardening: Jobs to do Dec 03 2011

As the last of the autumn leaves fall, let them gather in quiet corners and then collect them up. Don’t bother chasing them around the garden!Read

Gardening: Diary Dec 03 2011

1Vegetables – choose a sunny day and de-weed any neglected ground. Open up a 60cm (2ins) deep runner bean trench and begin to fill it with vegetative kitchen scraps, shredded newspaper and old compost.Read

Gardening: A year of events Dec 03 2011

_NOW that 2012 is only four weeks away you can start planning your gardening year.Read

Gardening: Cooking with cauliflower Dec 03 2011

If you watched the Great British Food Revival programme a few weeks ago with the Hairy Bikers you might, by now, have treated yourself and your family to a cauliflower and tried out one of the many dishes they used to help stimulate us into using this forgotten Brassica.Read

Gardening:Brrr! How to ‘wrap up’ plants for winter Nov 26 2011

WITH longer range weather forecasts suggesting that we may be in for another Arctic winter, you might want to give some thought to some of your more sensitive plants in the garden – assuming that they have survived the last two winters.Read

Gardening: Physocarpus ‘Little Devil.’ Nov 26 2011

AT a glittering award ceremony in London recently, the Garden Retail Award 2011 for Best New Plant went to Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Little Devil’ .Read

Gardening: My diary Nov 26 2011

_ ALPINES, An Essential Guide – at last a gardening book, written by a true expert in his field, that will steer the enthusiastic amateur through the maze of information that is needed to grow alpine plants successfully.Read

Gardening: Fruit and veg update Nov 26 2011

1Vegetables – tidy up winter brassica crops by pulling off yellowing older leaves. Check for infestations of cabbage whitefly, particularly on older leaves – remove and destroy. Snap leaves over developing cauliflower curds to prevent frost damage. Lift root crops and store them in dry compost in a frost free environment in case the ground freezes hard.Read

Gardening top tips Nov 26 2011

Make sure that you clean out bird baths and bird feeders regularly to help keep your garden birds healthy and clean out the bird’s nesting boxes.Read

Gardening: Eccremocarpus scaber Nov 19 2011

THIS stunning climber, Eccremocarpus scaber, has just about finished its 2011 display but will almost certainly have set huge amounts of seed ready for next year.Read

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