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How to improve your soil
How to chit potatoes
How to cut clean lawn edges
How to grow chillies from seed
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Fasciated shoots
Potato blight
Magnesium deficiency
Leatherjackets
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Catch up on the latest blogs

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Gardening jobs for snowy weather
[...] capturing gardening in all its glory for Gardeners' World Magazine and gardenersworld.com requires planning, and photographs of gardening and associated activities in the snow are in high demand.
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RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2012
Last weekend was the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch. The idea was simple: spend an hour in the garden, or local park, sometime over the weekend, and input what birds you saw at the RSPB website.
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Colourful winter stems
High on the list of good things about winter sunshine is the way it shows off the colourful winter stems of willows.
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Growing veg in shade
I’ve decided not to take any risks growing veg in my garden this year [...] consequently I’m only sowing shade-tolerant crops this spring.
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Chitting seed potatoes
My newly tidied greenhouse is now playing host to the seed potatoes as they start the chitting process, despite the fact that I caught a mouse in there a week or two ago.
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Growing onions: seeds versus sets
If you grow your own onions then one choice you have is whether to raise your crop from seed or from onion sets.

Choose plants for your garden

Hamamelis x intermedia 'Angelly'
Lathyrus odoratus 'mixed Spencer Hybrids'
Chimonanthus praecox
Crocus tommasinianus 'Whitewell Purple'