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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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Welcome to week four in my series of posts on starting and running a landscape or gardening business.
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I've been itching to let you in on a little…
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Open forum activity
"It's so frustrating isn't it! "
"Tim -- this is a good idea -- mainly because a great deal of 'organic' practices currently used by the general public are counter productive and will in fact do a great deal of damage to the whole organic / non pesticide movement ! "
"It's crazy. How is orange grass for 3 to 4 weeks, then bare earth for a couple of weeks then a shed load of tall weeds in it seeding everywhere better than going round with a strimmer or if that's not possible just a longer fringe of grass left? "
"Im pretty pro - organic and reduced pesticide use full stop -- but even im pretty shocked by the current attitudes out there to glyphosate - ive bteen using quite a few FaceBook horticultural pages over the last 6 months and its getting insane out t…"
"That Helen is pretty standard commercial maintenance practice to give a spray out margin near walls - many of my commercial sites are done exactly the same, walls, fence lines and around objects with glyp and a residual herbicide - also the man hole…"
"Adam -- i get your points - absolutely and its a hard situation for farmers -- but that has to change, its pretty assured now that number 1 chemicals shouldnt been in the food chain to the extent they are and that 2 recent agricultural practises ha…"
"Well one of those 4 parties will be elected so I will watch with interest. What happened in Bristol? Personally I wouldn't mind a bit of rewilding in our urban areas but I doubt it will go down well with the older generation. A lot of our pavements…"
"Dan - not going to argue with you - but I know a lot of arable farmers and they will all tell you the same thing - current crop yields - for the price that buyers (ie supermarkets/wheat millers) will pay - cannot be sustained without the use of glyp…"
"That's funny I think the opposite I think it should be banned in food production only as there is a small amount of evidence to link with cancer and it's being found in flour etc. Where is the harm in using it correctly to kill small weeds in.hard l…"
"Graham - its only partly due to reduction in cost of man/strimmer/line/fuel - its more about the reduction in liability in respect of flying objects ie stones being thrown at vehicles and members of the public. Also done to prevent 'bark ringing' of…"
"Its only the council's own use that's being stopped so don't panic. Amazingly, where I live in Bedfordshire, the council have gone round every piece of street "furniture" (lamposts, signs, posts) spraying weedkiller round the lot to leave a dead ye…"
"Good points Jim but really its agriculture that should be the first to have it removed -- im less concerned about the minor use in the public/amenity sector compared to the horrendous over use in food production.
Im suprised its taken Brighton so l…"
Im suprised its taken Brighton so l…"
"I think it's Brilliant, reduction in the use of pesticides and herbicides has to start somewhere. They are all a threat to environmental health.
My personal opinion goes a step further..glyphosate should be banned for all use except in agriculture…"
My personal opinion goes a step further..glyphosate should be banned for all use except in agriculture…"
"Our dealer is an hour away.....I get them to come to us. Etesia will also allow you to demo their kit which as far as I’m aware no other mower manufacturer lets you do this!"
Atco liner 19 sv
Hi all, sorry if this has been asked before. Does anyone have experience of this roller mower ? If so would you share your thoughts about grass pick up reliability etc. Cheers Grahame
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Pesticide ban in Brighton
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17596269.four-major-parties-support-ban-on-toxic-pesticides-in-brighton/ How is this legal or even possible for a council to ban something that is sold in garden centres and used on farms and food production? It's so…
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Hi, apologies as I know this question comes up quite a lot but I'm looking for recommendations for a mower that can deal with wet or longer grass . I already have the non pro Weibang roller which is good at collecting but weighs a ton, a small Honda…
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just bought a used viking mb 655 gm, i bought it as i know vikings are very good at filling the grass box to the brim, and good in the wet. i first used it yesterday, in the dry, and its grass collecting abilities where shite! all the grass just…
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