With the midsummer heat combining with recent intense downpours, formal lawns and outlying rough-grass areas are growing with exceptional vigour, so it’s time to
With the midsummer heat combining with recent intense downpours, formal lawns and outlying rough-grass areas are growing with exceptional vigour, so it’s time to
First there were gales, then rain and now snow and ice. And sometimes all four in the same day. So when things warm up
Most gardeners don’t want a big mower made to deal with acres of grass. Most of us want a simple mower, easy to start
Well. My inestimable colleague Dick Roberts has surpassed himself. Selfless, heroic and taking incredible risks to get gardening information to his reader. Traipsing through
As the Spring progresses, the light in the evening increases even further and the Scandinavian winds begin to realise there’s more to life than
I have to admit to being a little surprised by the lack of ‘stripe’ talk going on in these revered (yeah) blog pages recently.
The garden in May is always a delight with flowers starting to bloom and the vegetable plot showing signs of a good crop. But
Battery technology has advanced so rapidly in recent years that it can now deliver power equivalent to the internal combustion engine for many appliances,
Let’s go back. Way, way back to the nineties. A time when the Spice Girls were sticking their tongues out and telling us what
As Spring finally trips in with warmer days and plenty of growth in the borders and grass, we can now set out sites on