Mulch, in the simplest terms, is a layer you add on top of your garden soil. There are lots of benefits to adding mulch to your garden but there are also a few downsides you should be aware of so you can choose what will work best for you. What is mulc…
Category: Flowers
How To Pinch Out Your Dahlia Plants To Force More Flowers
There are a lot of small things you can do which make huge gains in your gardening, pinching out the growing tips on some plants is on of these easy wins. For new gardeners, the idea of pinching or snipping off the top of a plant can be terrifying. Esp…
How to pinch out your dahlia plants to force more flowers
There are a lot of small things you can do which make huge gains in your gardening, pinching out the growing tips on some plants is on of these easy wins.
For new gardeners, the idea of pinching or snipping off the top of a plant can be terrifying. Es…
How to harden off your plants before putting them outdoors
If you have grown plants indoors or using heat and grow lights in order to get a jump start on the season. Then the next step before you transplant them out into your garden is to harden them off. It sounds like a traumatic, complicated thing, but real…
Our garden kicks off in April
The early part of the year can be hard for many of us gardeners. We’re itching to get seeds in the ground, the plants transplanted out to the garden and really get going. If you are anything like me, your greenhouse is already bursting with seedlings a…
Growing petunias from seed
There is a bit of trepidation about growing petunias from seed, with most gardeners preferring to buy small plug plants and grow these on. It’s a shame though because petunias are no more difficult to grow than any other flowers. The seeds are just sma…
Will it survive the frosts? Hardiness ratings for your plants
As a youtube gardener, my garden is shared with a worldwide audience of keen gardeners. We share information, learn from each other and get to experience gardening from different perspectives. It really is such an amazing opportunity to learn and the s…