Category Archives for Garden Management
Care of Garden Soil: Soil Cultivation
It is a major theme of this website that good food comes from good gardens but only if the soil is maintained in good health. Soils vary considerably. The nature of the differences depends on a number of related factors, … Continue reading
Fruit and Vegetable Gardening: Planning the Plot
When establishing your fruit and vegetable garden you must work to a plan. It does not matter whether you are changing a mature, existing garden or fighting your way through the builders’ debris for the first time—a plan is essential. … Continue reading
Specific Garden Pests and Diseases
Ants Ants are an exception to the general rule that a pest is a creature that attacks a plant, eating its tissues. They do their damage in a more vicarious way. One of the ants favourite foods is the honeydew … Continue reading
Common Garden Pests and Diseases
One of the most disappointing things for the gardener is to see his plants destroyed or damaged by pests and diseases. This is, of course, to a certain extent inevitable. It happens in even the best-managed of gardens. Everything that … Continue reading
Pruning Different Types of Roses
The natural way for most roses to grow is to send up new shoots each year, ideally from or from near the base, and for the old shoots gradually to die back. You can see this happening with wild roses … Continue reading
Pests and Diseases Affecting Roses
Unless you are a masochist, do not spray unless you have to. Choose varieties of rose that are known to be healthy, buy good strong plants, cultivate them well, and their resistance will be that much greater. The only diseases … Continue reading
Gardening Techniques: Propagation
Nothing is more pleasant than to spend cold winter nights looking at seed catalogues and sending off a list of plants to your favourite nursery. Visions of bright colours fill the ‘inward eye’, and it is true that while a … Continue reading
Compost Cultivation for the Garden
Traditionally it was the practice to dig most plots on the garden each winter, but on established gardens a method of compost cultivation enables you to cut down almost entirely on digging. Properly done it can be most beneficial to … Continue reading
Garden Manures and Fertilisers
Nowhere is the analogy between human beings and plants more true than in the matter of food. Human beings need many different kinds of foods and they can only take them in a certain form. Some foods are needed more … Continue reading
Gardening Techniques: Marking Out Garden Borders and Making a Lawn
Marking out the Borders Having levelled the site or created new levels in it, the next step is to mark out the borders, working strictly from your plan. When marking out beds and borders it is useful to have a … Continue reading