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Graham Porter’s Gardening: weekly tips Jul 23 2011

To get the very best out of your hanging baskets and containers, dead head them every day and feed them once a week.Read

Examiner Community Garden winner: Christ Church Woodhouse School, Deighton Jul 21 2011

IT’S not just flowers and vegetables they are growing in this year’s winning Examiner Community Garden.Read

Garden of the Year 2011: Almondbury couple’s dedication wins them top prize Jul 20 2011

THE call to tell Bruce and Maureen Heath that they had won top prize in the Examiner of the Year competition interrupted a family tea.Read

Garden of the Year 2011: All the winners and finalists from all three classes plus pictures Jul 20 2011

Pictures and stories from the finalists in all three categories in the Garden of the Year 2011.Read

Graham Porter answers Huddersfield reader’s gardening questions Jul 16 2011

I’VE a mixed bag of problems to talk about this week, all sent in by Examiner readers.Read

Graham Porter’s plant of the week: Solidago Jul 16 2011

SOLIDAGO is a North American plant with around 100 known species and scores of hybrids that have graced our European gardens for many years.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening tips Jul 16 2011

Thoroughly search your garden for those hidden annual and biennial weeds that are seeding now and remove them before the seeds disperse across your garden.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening diary Jul 16 2011

THERE are more Forget-me-not Trust Open Gardens with Maureen Crosley opening hers today (10am to 4pm).Read

Graham Porter’s gardening: Shelley’s gardeners open their garden gates Jul 09 2011

IT IS a very big day in Shelley tomorrow with 30 gardens opening to the public.Read

Gardening: Graham Porter’s diary dates Jul 09 2011

MAUREEN Crosley is opening her garden for the West Yorkshire Forget-Me-Not Trust Open Gardens on July 16.Read

Gardening: Cherry trees are Graham Porter’s plant of the week Jul 09 2011

CHERRY ripe, cherry ripe.These words conjure up lots of images for us English, with songs, paintings and stories being created to celebrate the rich red fruits that are so common at this time of year.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening: How to achieve the ultimate in gardening prizes Jun 25 2011

AS the final entries in this year’s Examiner Garden of the Year competition land on our doormat, those of you that have sent in forms might like to consider a few ideas that will help your garden stand out from the crowd – just in case the judges come calling in a few weeks time.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening: Summer Radishes – Raphanus sativa Jun 25 2011

SUMMER Radishes – love them or hate them, they are one of our typical summer salad crops.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening: Fruit and veg update Jun 25 2011

1 Vegetables – Sow some extra short rows of carrots now for a late summer harvest. Take cuttings of woody herbs such as Sage, Rosemary, Bay and Thyme over the next few weeks to give you some replacement or extra plants for next year. Sow some pots of parsley, coriander and basil on a kitchen windowsill to give you fresh, easy to use herbs.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening: Top tips Jun 25 2011

Look out for autumn flowering bulbs such as Nerine, Sternbergia, Crocus autumnale and Schizostylis in your local garden centre to plant now.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening: My diary Jun 25 2011

_ SHELLEY Open Gardens – wow! 30 gardens are opening their gates on July 10 as part of the biennial Shelley Garden Festival.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening: Plant of the Week – Laurentia axillaris Jun 18 2011

BEAUTIFUl mixed up kid – one of the relatively new generation of tender plants for our summer containers now has three alternative names that will leave most amateur gardeners, let alone professionals, totally confused.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening: Is drought good for you and your garden? Jun 18 2011

WITH all the negative publicity surrounding the likelihood of poor harvests of peas, potatoes, cereals and other field grown crops, I though it might be as well to offer a few words on an alternative viewpoint.Read

Graham Porter’s gardening: Diary dates Jun 18 2011

` HARRY Lodge is opening his garden in aid of the West Yorkshire Forget-Me-Not-Trust.Read

Graham Porter Gardening: Weekly fruit and veg update Jun 18 2011

1 Early planted potatoes may well be worth testing out now for some of those beautiful small salad potatoes straight from the plot to the plate. Feed container grown vegetables regularly with a suitable food – high nitrogen for foliage crops, high phosphates for root crops and high potash for flowering and fruiting crops and water them well every morning. Water runner beans, sweet corn and courgettes well now.Read

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