Gardening
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How to make a colourful spring planter in six easy steps
This is not the easiest time of the year to get excited about gardening. To motivate yourself to go out in the garden in the cold – and more often than not, the wet – can be really challenging. Your lawn might be a muddy mess, and your borders less than enticing. While you wait for more clement conditions, try treating yourself to a few colourful containers of texture, foliage and colour, which will boost your mood no end.
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Ask Tom: How can I eradicate ground elder from my garden?
I have ground elder coming into my garden under a fence from my neighbour. The fence is south-facing on my side so the ground elder is growing towards the sun, and it’s impossible to get rid of. I cannot access my neighbour’s side of the fence as he is elderly and living elsewhere. How can I get rid of the encroaching ground elder?
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Your bird table is a death trap – here’s what to use instead
It is the much-heralded Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Big Garden Bird Watch this weekend. This survey was started in 1979 in association with Blue Peter, it was extraordinarily popular and so was expanded for adults too.
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Gardening jobs in January: what to plant and tidy in your garden
Provided the ground is not frozen, this time of year is a good opportunity to plant bare-root roses.
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The 10 potted bulbs you can plant now to bring instant spring to your garden
With recent chilly weather, we’re all yearning for spring – and we want it now. Luckily, garden centre benches are groaning under the weight of small pots of forced bulbs that are about to burst into flower, and they’ll propel your garden straight into spring in an instant. They’re inexpensive and versatile, and you can place them in a cool greenhouse, or arrange them on a plant theatre close to a sheltered wall. You could add them to a winter container, or use them on a patio or balcony. Once t
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The 11 best pressure washers for cleaning cars, decking and patios
Can you use a pressure washer to clean a car? What about a bike, patio, gutter, barbecue, garden chair or window? The answer is yes, to all of these. Some people even use them to clean their carpets and chimneys, which seems foolhardy. The trick is to use the best pressure washer for the job, since the likes of Kärcher and Clarke differ from Bosch and Worx.
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What to prune in December and January – and what to leave alone
Our gardens can seem inhospitable places during the depths of winter; light levels are at their lowest point, and there’s often that grey, drizzly weather that makes it so easy to stay indoors. However, during the darker months of December and January there are golden moments of sunshine, and those dry, cold conditions can be invigorating and spur you on to sharpen your secateurs and get out there.
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