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time.   Before my soil would compact to rock hard even with treatment.  Now its always easy to plant and weed.   Short term pain long term gain.    but what do you do if you have established perrenials everywhere, making it very hard to get to the soil

for wildlife.  Although your garden is small, can you designate a small area as a wild area?  I'm lucky to have a large garden and the bottom of it is kept as a wildlife area.  The grass is only cut twice a year and I leave the flowers (weeds) to do their own

feeding; there’s no weeding or digging, so it is labour-saving.Exploit all your spaceGrow gorgeous globe artichokes or jerusalem artichokes for their height at the back of a perennial bed. Team edible flowers such as heartsease, borage and calendula

of weeds. Verdun will hate me for that! Sorry Verdun That's ok busy lizzie. Lots of people don't like grasses .....until they see them in full flower. I have stipa gigantea, the golden oat grass. It gets to about 7 or 8 feet with golden yellow flower

mpty bed. I'd dig it in a week later.  If you are not into killing bees by using Neonicotinoids (Vine Weevil Killer) then spread the soil out thinly and go over it with a Weed Wand (Flame gun type thing) or try as we used to do, using a steam wall paper

. The flower garden includes beds in shade and full sun, damp beds and well drained, shrubs, perennials bulbs, a woodland corner, hedges and a wildlife pond.   Hey up nutcutlet sounds idilic your very luckly look after the frogs. Hey up Bunny the best of both

use ground cover a lot in my large garden, although "weeds"left to do there own thing will do it too, but I prefer the pretty ones like yellow archangel, acaena microphylla, perennial sweet peas, the poached egg plant, phacelia, etc. No sign of rat

into perennial planting schemes, with maybe the odd veg. Veg seeds sown in march (peas and broad beans) are only just germinating intermittently. and nothing else is appearing except for a small row of spring onions, which have germinated this year for the first

at the moment, but will have to start thinking seriously about it soon - as soon as the weather picks up a bit I shall be cutting out and preparing the bed - I'm planning mainly shrubs and some climbers, with perennials filling in, and mainly a midsummer

still coming to terms with the damage of last month's frosts which have had a terrible effect, especially on any evergreen shrubs and perennials. I have a ceanothus which has lost all its leaves, euphorbias which usually look stately at this time of year