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Gardening Guides
Tested, plant-by-plant guides for keeping things alive and growing food in small spaces.
- Getting Started
The Complete Guide to Planting Tulips
When to plant tulips, how deep, which ones come back and which are best treated as one-season bedding, with RHS-backed advice on tulips in pots, borders, aftercare and the problems to watch for.
LIGHT 3 of 3SPACE Pots, window boxes, balconies and small bordersDIFFICULTY easy✓ TESTED - Getting Started
The Complete Guide to Growing Olive Trees in Pots
How to grow an olive tree in a pot, from compost, watering and feeding to pruning, winter protection and developing a thicker trunk.
LIGHT 3 of 3SPACE Patios, courtyards and balconiesDIFFICULTY moderate✓ TESTED - Getting Started
The Complete Guide to Planting Bulbs
When to plant every kind of bulb, how deep, and what to do afterwards. Containers, borders and grass, plus the mistakes that stop bulbs flowering again.
LIGHT 3 of 3SPACE Containers, borders and grassDIFFICULTY easy✓ TESTED - Getting Started
Starting and Repairing a Lawn
How to start or repair a lawn this autumn, from seed and turf to scarifying, aerating, overseeding and fixing bare or drought-damaged patches.
LIGHT 2 of 3SPACE Small gardens, courtyards and back-garden lawnsDIFFICULTY moderate✓ TESTED - Getting Started
Soil and Compost pH, Explained
When does a container gardener actually need to care about pH? How ericaceous compost, hard water, alkalinity and plant symptoms fit together.
LIGHT 2 of 3SPACE Any pot, patio or balconyDIFFICULTY easy✓ TESTED - Getting Started
How to Propagate Plants
Stem cuttings, leaf cuttings, division and layering explained: which method suits which plant, when to do it, and how to turn one plant into several.
LIGHT 2 of 3SPACE Windowsills, balconies and small patiosDIFFICULTY easy✓ TESTED - Getting Started
The Complete Guide to Repotting
When a plant actually needs repotting versus when it just needs feeding, how to handle different root types without causing transplant shock, which plants hate being disturbed, and which ones want repotting every year.
LIGHT 2 of 3SPACE All growing spacesDIFFICULTY easy✓ TESTED - Getting Started
Feeding Plants: What They Actually Need
What NPK actually means, which feed to use and when, why containers need feeding and open ground mostly doesn't, and the honest signs of both underfeeding and overfeeding, including the Mediterranean plants that want far less than you'd think.
LIGHT 2 of 3SPACE All growing spacesDIFFICULTY easy✓ TESTED - Getting Started
Container Growing Fundamentals
Everything worth knowing about growing plants in pots, indoors and out: choosing the right container, drainage that actually works, which compost matters and which doesn't, feeding, repotting, and why containers behave differently to open ground.
LIGHT 2 of 3SPACE Any potDIFFICULTY easy✓ TESTED - Getting Started
How to Water Plants Properly
A complete guide to watering plants properly, indoors and out, through every season: how to tell when a plant needs water, how much to give it, why overwatering kills more plants than drought, tools that help, and how watering needs change from spring through winter.
LIGHT 2 of 3SPACE Any pot, any bedDIFFICULTY easy✓ TESTED
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