Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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Summer flowering trees are now hitting their straps. Wave after wave of flowers will be blooming on your hibiscus tree. An evergreen magnolia casts shade – and a special spell. Savour the tulip tree’s final flowering fling before its leaves turn yell

Amateur Gardening

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LAST month I was playing with my pots, deadheading, weeding and moving them to a sheltered location at the side of the house because bad weather was forecast, when I noticed that the plants in one of them weren’t doing very well. I reached out and sl

Country Life

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ONE February day three years ago, Yoko called me from the local garden centre: ‘That spot behind the house that you don’t know what to do with, I’ve found just the thing for it—a money plant.’ Before I could protest, the line went dead, leaving me to

Kitchen Garden

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Not all pumpkins are great bruisers; some varieties like 'Jack Be Little' and its palm-sized fruits are even suitable for container growing. These pumpkins might be smaller than traditional varieties, but they're still not small! So give them the spa

Amateur Gardening

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1 Avoid pressing compost down. Sieve it into a tray or cells until overflowing, remove surplus with a straight edge, then drop the tray lightly on a flat surface to settle it. 2 Broadcast sowing in open trays suits some seeds – particularly tiny ones

Amateur Gardening

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Write to us: Letters, Amateur Gardening magazine, Pinehurst 2, Pinehurst Road, Farnborough Business Park, Farnborough, Hants GU14 7BF (please include your address). Email us: amateurgardening@futurenet.com Star letter THE great benefit of my neighbou

Kitchen Garden

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These pests eat earthworms so destroy any that you spot (either coiled or stretched out). They hide under tiles or pieces of flat plastic laid on the ground – both can be used as traps. Don’t cut them in half or both parts can regenerate. Boiling wat

Woman's Weekly

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Weeds multiply in beds and borders during spring. Keep on top of them by running a hoe between rows of plants on a dry day to slice through the roots and lift. As gentle sunshine warms up the soil in our gardens, now is the time to plant summer-flow

Organic NZ

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• I find that planting in the first quarter [of the moon’s phase] helps plants to be resilient and robust with greater yields, compared to just popping the plants in any time. Waiting for the right moon phase also creates a natural rhythm for stagger

Your Home

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If you’re a bird lover who’s also a vegetarian, you may prefer to avoid feeding birds suet or mealworms. Boxwild has developed a vegetarian bird food box which contains three popular blends and a seed scoop. The All Seasons Blend is a nutritious mix

Garden Gate

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Oh, the busy gardener: always trying to find where you left your hand trowel. Joy used to mark her tools with bright-colored tape, but she still had a hard time locating them after she set them down. Looking for something that would be a bit easier t

Garden Gate

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If you enjoy the multitude of blooms the smaller-flowered, jump-up type of violas provide but would like them in a bigger size, the ColorMax series is just what you need. These floriferous violas have ¾- to 1-inch blooms in 10 colors and four mixes.

Amateur Gardening

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1 Dampen the floor in the morning, and in the afternoon, too, in hot weather, to keep the heat manageable. A bowl of water under staging will evaporate and have the same effect. 2 Open the door and windows to keep a steady breeze flowing through, and

Farmer's Weekly

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Leaf analysis is the only technique according to which sensible fertilisation can be applied to a specific planting. The following aspects are important: • The correct time for sampling is from mid-September to mid-November. • The first leaf sample o

Country Life

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Tomatoes are always a pleasure to grow, but they cannot be left to their own devices. Cordon plants grown up twine or canes under glass should be tidied up by removing unproductive sideshoots. Bend down the shoot near the base and it will come away c

KRASH

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Welcome to Neighborville, where all is well. Except that a crazy new coniferous conflict between brain-less and botanicals is brewing! What are you gonna do – call the crops? Soil your plants? Prepare to kick some grass in a plant-on-zombie conflict

Country Life

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Glyndebourne's wind turbine reached a record yield of 1,820MWh last year. Further environmental kudos comes from plans to build a new event space using wood from trees felled due to ash die-back and food waste such as oyster and lobster shells and co

Pick Me Up

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The colder months can be harsh on wildlife, with many finding their watering holes have frozen over or their cosy dry home is feeling damp. Thankfully, with just a few easy steps, you can help create safe places for wildlife in your very own garden!

Country Life

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THE days are getting longer, albeit agonisingly slowly. We’re now enjoying almost 5½ more minutes of daylight compared with Christmas Day. However, for two-thirds of the time, it’s still dark and a dreadful time for commuters. The countryside is almo

BBC Gardeners' World

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• Stop birds eating grass seed Cover re-seeded areas with netting or fleece, or suspend shiny paper and old CDs above them to scare birds away. • Let in light Shade is the enemy of a good lawn, so cut back trees and shrubs that block the sun. • Comba

Amateur Gardening

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IT is very easy to take one’s eye off the gardening ball at this time of year when everything is going on and there is a temptation to prioritise, say, crops and new plantings. I was caught out by a small bottlebrush tree (Callistemon citrinus) that

Log Home Living

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Part of the allure of a log home is its all-natural setting, complete with abundant wildlife and adorable critters. But when they’re wrecking your garden and eating your well-planned landscape, it’s time to gently encourage your neighbors to dine els

Wisconsin Magazine of History

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At first, just knowing the valley was enough. As my relationship with Laird grew, we visited more often, learning and naming the varied flora, delighting in finding caves and grottoes. Laird’s cousin David and his wife Shelley were also enthralled wi

The Field

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Trout conservation projects on the Trent, Welland and tributaries of the Test, Thames, Bourne and Cam are being planned for this summer after the Wild Trout Trust raised £70,000 in this year’s auction. Trust director Shaun Leonard said the auction fu

go: Platteland

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STAR NURSERY In Muldersdrift, not far from the Johannesburg city centre, Linda de Luca has created a nursery and ecosystem that provide shelter for more than a thousand indigenous plants and creatures. Linda started her nursery 28 years ago with a ba

Earth Garden

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Judith has been the co-publisher and book review editor of Earth Garden for 30 years. She lives with her husband Alan and children on a solar-powered ‘urban farm’ at Cable Beach in Western Australia. Judith is an accomplished artist, art teacher, and

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Our lovely tenants in the Hokianga moved into their own place this Christmas and so, as a result of our place once more being available to us, I’ve decided to spend more time up north. I’ve also decided that while I’m up there, I’d quite like to be u

Newsweek

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In her sumptuous new book, Lauri Kranz—garden guru to the stars—will inspire even apartment dwellers to grow their own food.

BBC Gardeners' World

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As well as the frenzy of seed sowing, this month, I make comfrey and nettle teas from the new spring growth to use as fertiliser around the plot. It can brew away while my seedlings grow and will be ready in six weeks. The sweetcorn patch-to-be gets

Deer & Deer Hunting

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One often-overlooked element to creating appealing food plots is introducing native trees, shrubs and vines. These are planted as stand-alone attractants or along edges to create security cover and backup food sources should standard crops fail due t