Store winter squash
Harvest winter squash to store for winter, filling your shelves with rich, flavour-packed fruits to turn into hearty casseroles, soups, roasts and bakes right through the coldest months of the year. By now as the weather turns chillier, the leaves on squash plants are often starting to die down, leaving the ripening fruit exposed to the late autumn sunshine. Remove any [...]
Gardening for the soul
It’s official - gardening is good for the soul according to new research from the National Gardening Scheme (NGS). A survey of x000 gardeners found that over 85% agreed that visiting a garden has a positive impact on their wellbeing, with eight in 10 feeling happier after strolling around a garden. The NGS released the survey, ‘Open the Garden Gate to [...]
Time for a fresh lawn?
Get the ground ready now for laying new lawnsas now is the best time of year to sow grass seed or lay turf, while the air and soil are still warm and there are gentle autumn rains to help roots establish quickly. Here at the garden centre we have fresh new turf in stock right now, ready to lay, as [...]
The greatest British Garden of 2018
A Suffolk garden full of tropical-looking planting has won the title of Great British Garden of 2018 beating nine runners-up to claim the £4,100 gardening vouchers prize plus a gardening class with TV’s Adam Frost. The winners of the competition, sponsored by the Daily Telegraph and Yorkshire Tea, spent 13 years creating their garden. Christine and Geoffrey Ingham planted exotic-looking Fatsia, [...]
Happy & healthy creatures!
Clean wildlife equipment ready for a busy winter to keep birds and other creatures happy and healthy during their most challenging time of year. Putting out food and providing safe hibernating spots in the garden provides a lifeline for creatures like hedgehogs, ground beetles and frogs – they’ll reward your efforts by providing a built-in pest control service next year, as [...]
Delicious fresh greens to pick
Sow salads for winter now and you’ll have plenty of delicious fresh greens to pick right through from autumn till spring. There’s a host of cold-hardy salad ingredients which are able to grow quite happily even in watery winter sunlight, and are also resilient enough to put up with frost, snow and winter gales: just pop a cloche over the [...]