A Useful Bit of Kit

While you can also fertilize with a pinch of water-soluble balanced feed from time to time, these Homemade Fertilizers for Indoor Plants in Water are easy, mild, and pocket-friendly.

A busy working life may make it difficult to source the right plants for your garden, but gardening subscription boxes and gardening kits save you time, delivering anything from seeds to gardening kit, to helpful gardening instructions straight to your door. This convenience has given gardening kits and subscription boxes a growing niche among subscription-style services, delivering houseplants, seeds and vegetables direct to your door every month, season or just when you need them.

If you own a car but don’t have a garage to put it in, we know you want more. Not only will you be leaving your car out in the rain, but standing in the sun for a prolonged period of time can also lead to the fading and discoloration of the paint. Besides that, having your car sitting under the sun for a long periods of time can also result in the premature wear and tear of your vehicle. But, there’s an easy way out of this problem, and it’s called a carport.

Chickens were domesticated some 8,000 years ago in Southern China. Since then, the humble chicken has become a favorite in many people’s diet and their backyards. 

Living in a small house is a growing rage among people from all walks of life, quite a few countries are having a big love affair with cabins.

A stylish pergola is an excellent addition to any home, and an ideal choice to create comfortable coves in your lawn or backyard. A pergola emphasizes a home by adding shade to the backyard for family gatherings and get-togethers. The good news is that today, there are several choices available for those who are looking to get a pergola. From the style and the size to the materials used, you can easily find the perfect pergola to suit your needs. 

Some people say–“dawn dish soap is the duct tape for the kitchen,” but it’s even more, you can use this powerful liquid soap in your garden not in one or two ways but dozen. Discover these Dawn Dish Soap Uses in the Garden below, and decide for yourself.

So, you’re stuck at home. But that doesn’t mean you have to give up on gardening!With so many options available and warm weather jus

In the garden, it’s easy to observe the beautiful flora above the soil line, but have you ever been curious about what’s happening below it?With the right soil test kit, you’ll no longer have to

I’ve just come back from a wonderful canal boat holiday with seven other bell ringers. This is my third trip with them and I have so much fun. Looking at the weather forecast for the week it didn’t look brilliant, but most of the time the sun shone and it was dry. We did have a little thunderstorm overhead and opening a lock when it was pissing with rain and then hailing was not my idea of fun, but we all counted ourselves lucky for the weather that we had.

This is the time of year when euphorbias really come into their own as a perfect foil for spring bulbs. The larger varieties, including E.mellifera and E.wulfenii provide structure throughout the year, but with their spring topping of flowers, they add that wonderful acid green that works so well with tulips and narcissi. This year’s mild winter means that mellifera is flowering earlier than usual and the garden is already filled with the scent of honey on warm days. E. polychroma is a favourite in the borders where it looks great among the newly emerging herbaceous plants while the scaly-leaved stems of E.myrsinites coil sinuously over walls.  

I loved the garden designed by James Wong and David Cubero for Tourism Malaya last year, but this year’s offering looks like the sort of place a James Bond villain would have as his jungle hideaway.  Sombre, urban brutalist structures surrounded by lush planting and water running over dark stones, it is a very masculine garden – which is maybe why I was not so keen on it.  I longed for some contrast – or even a bit of Diarmuid theatricality – maybe a wall sliding back to reveal a large screen with the villain broadcasting a menacing message  threatening to steal the contents of the Millenium Seed Bank!