Gardeners' Heaven

What to do in June. “It is the month of June, the month of leaves and roses, when pleasant sights salute the eyes and pleasant scents the noses” Nathaniel Parker Willis June is all about colour. The flowers in your borders are bursting into life and while the grass might not be as green as [...]

It seems we should all be fairly well versed with the concept of compost – the art of throwing unwanted vegetable peelings into a bin in the garden, waiting for around a year or two and then using the resulting organic matter in our veg beds and borders. As part of National Compost Awareness week, [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh When you don’t have the space for a full-blown kitchen garden, you can still grow salads. A salad bed as small as a square yard is enough to yield useful amounts of sandwich fillings, garnishes and side-salads, but if you’re feeding a family then a square yard of salad bed per person [...]

Men. Now you’ve got the hang of your grill and can produce a reasonable meal on it along with true adulation that such an achievement deserves (women everywhere roll their eyes), it’s time to learn a few top tips to keeping it in tip top condition. There are lots of expensive bottles produced with the [...]

by Alan Titchmarsh As the days grow longer and brighter and temperatures start to rise, garden wildlife instinctively starts preparing for spring and all that entails. Hedgehogs emerge from their winter hibernation any time in March or early April depending on temperatures. From now on birds begin nesting and gathering their resources for egg laying [...]