Growing Made Easy

  • How to stop seedlings becoming leggy

    The short answerSeedlings turn leggy when they have too much warmth and too little light, which makes them stretch .....

  • Sowing veg seeds direct in the soil

    As soon as spring starts to warm up there is lots of veg seed sowing that can be direct .....

  • When is the best time to cut ornamental grasses

    When spring growth is starting to get under way, ornamental grasses along with many other types of herbaceous plants, .....

  • How to grow sweet peas

    The scented flowers of sweet peas are the very essence of summer, whether wafting their fragrance through the garden .....

  • Grow more plants the easy way

    Filling a garden, however small, with plants can be a costly business but there is an easy way to .....

  • Easy hints and tips on how to prune

    There is so much more to pruning than simply just chopping plants back and how to prune plants is .....

  • How to grow chillies and tomatoes for summer

    If you want to grow a bumper crop of chillies, sweet peppers, tomatoes or aubergines for summer, then February .....

  • Best time for bare-root planting

    Ask most green fingered gardeners, those with the dirt ingrained up their finger nails, and they'll tell you that .....

  • Choosing what to grow for summer

    Beside my chair in the living room, at the moment, are piles of seed and plant catalogues, along with .....