Cold weather is fast approaching, which means there are steps you need to take now to make sure your backyard will come bloom healthily in spring. Protecting your outdoor plants from frost is vital to ...
Learning how to protect plants from frost is a must when cold weather is on the way. Frost can affect many plants, and is particularly damaging to tropical and ornamental varieties, as well as any ...
With warmer weather on the horizon, it’s all-go if you’re an avid gardener — and soon, you’ll need to think about when to unwrap plants and put the horticultural fleece to bed. Well, you might be able ...
Monty Don has shared top tips on how gardeners can protect shrubs and plants from the frost this winter. The gardening expert explained that the dropping temperatures can cause the garden to "suffer ...
Monty Don regularly shares gardening advice on television as well as through his monthly online blogs. This month, the expert has shared a list of jobs gardeners should be doing, including protecting ...
Even though it might not seem like it right now, climate change has made winters warmer and wetter. Twenty-five years ago, gardeners could rely on a cold snap around mid-November, when temperatures ...
Ever year, I look out my old horticultural fleece to help warm up the soil in the vegetable garden – and every year I decide I should really buy some more. Like stockings straight from the drawer, ...
When winter bites, we can simply duck indoors or throw on a woolly jumper - but our plants in pots don't have it so easy. Plummeting temperatures, frost and rain can take their toll, causing roots to ...
Lots of pests are just waiting to damage allotment crops. While chemicals can control some of them, organic growers, of course, have to use organic controls, and that is more difficult. Did you know ...
As nights sharpen and orchards empty, a quiet revival is spreading: a humble, timeworn trick that buys precious fruit-time for all. The first frosts arrive, ladders go back in the shed, and baskets ...
With much of the UK basking in glorious sunshine and temperatures climbing to 27C this week, it’s tempting to pack away winter gardening gear for good. However, experts are urging homeowners not to be ...
Whether you want it to or not, the cold is officially here, which means we need to make a list of tender plants to bring indoors this autumn if we want to ensure they're happy and thriving at the same ...