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Category : Gardening

6 Tips For Winter Turf Care

Looking after your lawn turf during the summer is a relatively easy task and many homeowners even find it quite relaxing.  This, however, changes during the winter months when the poor weather arrives and tending the lawn suddenly becomes a chore.  Unfortunately, if you want your turf to look its best when the warmer weather arrives, you do still need to pay it some attention through the winter.  Our six helpful tips below should go a long way to ensuring a green lawn when the cold weather abates.

Some DIY projects can end up costing you an arm, leg and two toes. This is not one of them. This is an easy to make, cost effective project you can do with things already lying around your house. Best of all, you can do it in under 15 minutes.

10 Steps to Planting Your Lawn

If you’re hesitant about establishing a lawn from seed, don’t be. As the least expensive way to start a lawn, it’s successfully done by plenty of homeowners, and when done right will result in strong and healthy grass. Here are 10 steps to help you achieve those kinds of results:

A How to Guide to Growing Bulbs

This is a guest post by Amy Fowler.

There are several clever methods of growing bulbs all year round. Naturalising and forcing are just two examples, amongst a number of others. Once you learn the basics behind growing bulbs, you’ll surely be a master in no time. In this guide, we’ll explore a number of handy and helpful tips for growing bulbs.

How to make a compost tumbler

Composting is a great way to get rid of your kitchen scraps, leaves and general garden mulch. You can go the old fashioned way and just create a great big compost heap – which is easy but every now and then you have to muck in and toss it around to aerate it and stop it from becoming a rotting mass. Or, you can use a tumbler, which, with a quick turn, does all the tossing for you.

How to grow your own vegetables

Groceries get more expensive each year with fuel rises and price-jumps. As a means of surviving and to be more eco-friendly people have started to grow their own vegetables. While it may seem like a big job having to plant, water and look after a patch of vegetables it’s actually quite easy and will save you quite a sum on fresh produce. You’ll also ensure that the food you eat is healthy and organic.