The last few months have brought the joy of gardening to a wider audience than ever before, and a whole new group of people are now discovering that you can not only grow flowers in your garden, but edible plants too! We covered growing vegetables some time ago, so our Gardening Angels are now looking at herbs.

Flowering plants that like shaded areas are great, as they allow you to make maximum use of that precious space in your garden. Over the last few months, many people have increasingly fallen in love with their gardens, and so are putting a lot more time and effort into them than ever before. But what to do with those parts of your garden that remain stubbornly shielded from sunlight?

Water is essential for your plants to grow healthy and strong, but with our busy daily schedules it can be hard

Using an automated watering system, like a garden, greenhouse spray irrigation kit or sprinkler irrigation system, allows your flowers and plants to get the right amount of water at the right times. This takes away the daily chore of having to make time to water your plants and does the work for you when you’re too busy or unavailable.

Chafer Grubs are the larvae of the common summer Chafer Beetle and they feed on the roots of your plants and decaying plant material.

These Beetle Grubs hatch from May – June and likely to cause havoc to your garden lawn, hence why they are sometimes called the ‘May Bug Larvae’. In most instances, the damage they do is minimal, however if these lawn grubs build into hoards then significant areas of your lawn can suffer from damage and drying due to a lack of water and nutrients.

Slugs can be a big pain for gardeners, and they love to eat holes through your plants leaves, stems, flowers, roots, tubers and bulbs. Slugs eating away at your prized plants is a serious issue leaving behind slime trails, scarred leaves and lost seedlings. In this article we will explain some different effective organic and natural slug control that is both manageable and affordable to help get rid of slugs in your house, garden, kitchen or patio.

Garden wildlife has well and truly sprung into action over the last few weeks, with reports of people sighting a whole range of creatures and minibeasts during lockdown. The absence of many people out and about, instead confined to their homes, has also attracted more rarer types of wildlife to the UK.

The current popularity boom in gardening that’s developed during deadlock has seen seed sales surge all around the world, with reports emerging of record demand. So, as more people turn to gardening as a hobby and stock up on seeds, what better time to give a quick guide to what you need to know about these embryonic plants.

With lockdown still underway and many people now with much more time on their hands, the popularity of gardening is growing. People are using their free time to turn their fingers green and take up gardening as a new hobby.

The ongoing Covid-19 lockdown has given many of us a lot more time to spend in our gardens enjoying our plants. In these unprecedented times, we’re free to try out all of those gardening dreams that we’ve held on to for years, but never got around to realising.

With the recent changes to our everyday living habits, many are now beginning to explore new hobbies. One such hobby seems to be gardening; specifically, growing vegetables, fruits and herbs.