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Healthy soil is the secret behind good harvests. Good soil provides moisture, nutrition and support for crops. It’s important to understand your soil type so that you can improve your garden from t...

If you’ve followed our how to grow onions guide and have a vegetable patch full of healthy, flavourful produce, you might be interested in learning a thing or two about how to store onions so that...

Mr Fothergill's range of high-quality grass seed recently re-launched with new formulations and a fresh new carton design. The new formulations include a great addition for those loved but well-use...

Tips for Growing BambooBamboo is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful, tolerant and low maintenance, structural foliage plants, which has real presence and deserves a place in any garden. With ele...

Flowering shrubs are an invaluable addition to any garden and most are extremely low maintenance once established. They often flower profusely for a long period of time and many are hard to beat fo...

Deadheading, the removal of spent blooms that are past their best, is one of those jobs a gardener can be doing several times a week but it is also one of the most rewarding. The results can be see...

Why is it good to get children growing? Research shows that gardening can help children of all ages lead more fulfilled, happier and healthier lives. It's an inexpensive way to gain many valuable l...

Spring flowering bulbs like daffodils and tulips are one of the great joys of gardening and create the most perfect welcome to spring. Their fleeting nature just makes it more special, so all too s...

Simply put, the ‘Chelsea Chop’ is the pruning of herbaceous perennials to improve and control their shape and flowering. A good time to do this is late spring, often around the time of the Chelsea ...

There’s nothing more cheering than to look up some summer colour on the Mr F website and dream about dahlias. You know what I’m going to say next don’t you: order tubers now before they sell out. ...

Unbeatable for sheer flower power, these easy to grow, vivacious climbers are so full of vitality and energy, they never fail to bring a garden to life. Whether grown over an obelisk in patio conta...

  At the very start of our gardening lives, often as our parents try to get us interested in gardening for the first time, we’re encouraged to sow seeds of hardy annuals. Flowers whose seeds you c...

 This is the month we can take our foot off the brake and dive headlong into sowing and planting. However an overnight frost can undo all our hard work so proceed with caution and be ready with a f...

Wondering what to plant in May and how to best look after your garden in summer? We’ve got plenty of tips and May garden jobs to get you prepared.