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Topiary Balls rooted in ancient gardening…
Most landscaping and garden related jobs will produce waste in some form or another, and larger jobs may require a waste disposal solution. There are a number of options available, but whatever you choose, it is important that you get a great…
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Thanks to Jason Hornby, an award winning garden designer, for sharing his knowledge on hardy perennials in his first blog post exclusively for Jacksons.
How perennials add consistent colour to…
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The soil beneath the grass on your lawn tends to become compacted over time and as a result has too many solid particles in a certain volume or space which prevents…
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A survey to over 1,500 respondents commissioned by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)* has found that 80% of the UK is getting outside gardening over the 2014 National Gardening Week, 14th to 20th April, and Easter Weekend.
The top three…
You might have a healthy, green lawn and a variety of plans in your garden, but this does not make it ‘green’ in the truest sense. Many gardens use chemical pesticides and insecticides that harm the environment and fail to attract vital wildlife,…
You don’t have to wait to until the summer months to make valuable improvements to your garden. Here are three simple ways to develop your garden this winter.
Plan for the Season Ahead
Just because you don’t spend…
When people do work on their gardens they often get carried away with filling it with plants, ornaments and other items, and they overlook a very important aspect. This is the fencing around the perimeter, and this should be on the top of your…
Prize money in The Artisan Garden Design Competition being run by the organisers of Gardening Scotland has risen to £6,000 following support from The Cross Trust.
There are now three awards of £2,000 each will be given to designers who…
House builder David Wilson Homes has been named as sponsor of the Show Garden Avenue at Gardening Scotland 2014.
The national flower and outdoor living show, which next year will take place from Friday, 30 May until…
The organisers of Gardening Scotland are calling on the…
wp>Today, the RHS announces the launch of the world’s first global online gardening for wildlife course- to educate people on planting and creating attractive habitats for wildlife in their gardens. The course is bookable from September 7 via…
- Gardeners are less likely to display signs of depression
- Poll found 80 per cent of gardeners feel satisfied with their lives
- Only 67 per cent of non-gardeners feel the same…
Seed potato grower, Ian Barbour from Annan, has smashed…
Five-year-old Edinburgh twins Olivia and Matthew Ducreux who are…
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Caring for your garden when there’s a hosepipe ban in place…
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Welcome to week four in my series of posts on starting and running a landscape or gardening business.
Covered so far:
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Open forum activity
"If you had a choice would you rather councils spent their money on keeping footpaths weed free or repairing the pot holes and terrible state of the roads ?
Paths outside homes can be kept clean by local residents - which used to be common place, an…"
Paths outside homes can be kept clean by local residents - which used to be common place, an…"
"it is best pratice to store it in the origanal container so you know what it is and the safty data and use of the product is there for any one to read
can you make a wooden box to stand the bags in and a boot lace to fasten the part bags up
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can you make a wooden box to stand the bags in and a boot lace to fasten the part bags up
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"With the footways not being sprayed this year, this is a fairly common sight with much more growth on other paths. "
"You could use a DR trimmer and have the lines at different heights. You could, theoretically, carry it into the field. Then you just push and strim."
"According to my Fitbit, I average about 22,000 steps but my "record" is 36,000. No idea how far that is though?"
"Thank you Sean "
"I wondered what was going in there. Could be useful thank you. "
"Turfleet/Burdens have relocated with Farol to the old countrywide depot at the A4 Hare Hatch near Twyford. They may have something."
"Presumably any dog mess that is produced whilst the dogs are under the care of professionals is actually trade waste and technically it should not be disposed of in the bins provided by council s in parks.
There is a park across the back of my home…"
There is a park across the back of my home…"
"Try Southern Plant in Henley."
"Proffesional dog walkers are charging customers to walk dogs on public owned land, A while ago, fitness instructors were 'tageted' for the same reason, for running 'boot camps' in public parks."
"Beware, washing up liquid contains salt, which can wreck the integrity of mortar.
Lime, in itself, is plascticised and you shouldn't need any additives.
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Lime, in itself, is plascticised and you shouldn't need any additives.
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"Which is why you can you washing up liquid as a plasticier, though it's not recommended. "
"Plasticier is an air entrainer, it makes bubbles in the mortar, so the mortar ends up like Aero chocolate bars.
It actually lightens the mix and make a it easier to work with, but porous.
Waterproof does the exact opposite , it drives out the air f…"
It actually lightens the mix and make a it easier to work with, but porous.
Waterproof does the exact opposite , it drives out the air f…"
"such as in expanshon and contraction"
"Cheers Neil appreciate that. Yeah the turning must be so much better especially around trees etc. Will look into this and demo the 56 cheers. "
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Storing Seed/Fert in plastic buckets.
I'm forever nicking the sides of bags, not quite doing them up correctly as well as not really being able to neatly store bags of seed etc. Would food grade plastic buckets work for storage without shortening the shelf life of the product? By some…
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Public Space Protection Order.
The local council appear to be targeting professional dog walkers, along with anyone else who wants to walk more than four dogs in a local country park. https://www.facebook.com/157624024263273/posts/2605531369472514/
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Hi, we currently have a Weibang Asd but finding it’s not as good as what people said about collecting grass in the wet. Seems to clog up on way to grass box anyone else find this and has anyone got experience with Toro mowers, we always used toro…
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