How To Garden2025-07-26T15:34:19+01:00

How To Garden

Whether you’re newbie, extending tentative green-ish fingers into the soil, or a well-seasoned grower, there’s always something new to learn. My ‘How to Garden’ section has lots of hints and tips that I’ve amassed from over 50 years of gardening that I want to share with you through the written word as well as videos from my YouTube channel.

Scroll down the page for a few general pieces on gardening. But for more in depth detail on specific topics I’ve divided the content into three, coloured coded sections. Simply click on one of the headings below, or navigate using the headings in the pull-down menu at the top of each page…

PLANTING GARDENS

GROWING MADE EASY

PROBLEM SOLVING

Garden jobs for late-winter days

Whenever there are rainy days on the menu, my thoughts turn to doing some more seed sowing. I’ve got a number of packets that my dear friend Matt Biggs sent me - we’ve been swapping seeds and plants for years - and, whenever the skies turn a bit leaden in the spring, I feel the need to fill some .....

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