Garden Articles List

Gardening with children

Gardening with children - Tips for encouraging children to be gardeners

Wildlife gardening for children:

- Helping birds in the garden

- Frogs in the garden

- Gardens for ladybirds

- Gardens for hoverflies

- Bees in the garden

- Gardens for butterflies

- Mammals in the garden

- Spiders in the garden

Check your bonfire for hedgehogs before Bonfire Night!

Propagation, planting and plant care

Garden Plant Information - Alphabetical list

Planting a bare root tree

Softwood cuttings

How to take Semi-ripe cuttings

How to Propagate bulbs

Air layering - a practical guide

Planting hanging baskets - part 1

Planting hanging baskets - part 2

Shrub care in winter - includes a list of shrubs that will benefit from winter protection

Growing your own vegetables

Vegetables you can sow in late summer

Growing Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) in the UK

Growing potatoes in containers

Growing potatoes for Christmas dinner

My first experience of growing tomatoes

Parasitic wasps in the vegetable garden - beneficial wasps in the garden and how to tell if you've got them

Grow your own vegetables - About the project

The Supply of Food

Kitchen Garden Journal

Miscellaneous

A Chinese puzzle solved - Pilea peperomioides

Plant blindness - why do some people not see plants?

Botanical words and definitions

Understanding botanical names

Trialling the digging Spork

Recipes - preserving the harvest

Some notes on recipe quantities and conversions

Making Kimchi with cabbage and courgettes - dealing with a glut from the garden.

Chilli sauce recipe - making chilli sauce, a new pleasure.

Tomato and chilli relish

Seed saving

Collecting, drying and storing seed

Saving tomato seeds

Gardening Projects

Composting Toilet Project

Building a composting toilet - videos

Building a Straw Bale Composting Toilet

Straw Bale Composting Toilet - Straw Bale Walls

Straw Bale Compost Toilet - Preparing to Thatch the Roof

Straw Bale Composting Toilet - Thatching the Roof

Composting Toilet - Compost Toilet Box & Ready to Use

Growing for showing

This is an article by Digger Evans that explores some of the ins and outs of growing vegetables for the show bench

Growing blanch leeks for the show bench

General garden subjects

Using salvage in the garden - 15 ideas for using 'junk'

A bit about the garden and how it's developed

Finding a garden specialist

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