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Useful Links

Useful Links

These are some useful links to other resources that will help you in your home and garden.

Garden Guides

Garden Guides

These printable and downloadable guides will help you keep your garden looking great.

How to Make the Best Compost

How to Make the Best Compost

Compost is decomposed organic material; almost exclusively vegetable matter. Good compost is suitable for using in your garden soils to return nutrients to the soil and improve soil condition by...

How to Protect and Promote Pollinators in Your Garden

How to Protect and Promote Pollinators in Your Garden

Bees are pollinators of many plants including strawberries, kiwifruit, figs, grapes, stone fruit and apples. Even salad plants need pollination to produce the seeds from which they are grown.

Ants in Your Plants?

Ants in Your Plants?

Do you see ants in your plants? Do you wonder what they are doing there? It may be that they are 'farming' sap sucking insects such as scale insects, aphids...

Lawns - To Mulch or Not to Mulch?

Lawns - To Mulch or Not to Mulch?

To Mulch or Not to Mulch? That is the question.

Growing Small Fruit Trees

Growing Small Fruit Trees

No matter how small your garden, you can grow fruit trees. Even if you don’t have a garden and only a balcony, there are dwarf varieties that can be grown...

Wildflowers

Wildflowers

Wild flowers have become very popular with gardeners. But what is meant by the term ‘wild flower’? And why are they so popular?

When to Sow Grass Seed

When to Sow Grass Seed

A common gardening question is ‘when can I sow grass seed’? The answer may surprise you.