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Allotment, Composting, Gardening, Grow Your Own, Infographics, Jorge, Planting

Practising Crop Rotation To Improve Yields
Crop rotation is important as it allows one to greatly increase their vegetable yields. All it involves is rotating what you grow between plots as to maintain nutrient levels. The […]
Posted On: 02/05/17
Gardening, Jorge, Weeding

Why Weeds Are Good for the Ecosystem and Your Health
To many gardeners, weeds are a recurrent annoyance that you have to put up with as a fact of life. They can interrupt your otherwise perfect lawn or stifle your […]
Posted On: 13/04/17
Jorge, Plants

Why Are Most Plants Green?
Green plants appear green due to a pigment called chlorophyll that primarily absorbs blue and red wavelengths of the visible light spectrum, but reflects a portion of green wavelengths. This […]
Posted On: 30/03/17
Composting, Gardening, Jorge, Plants

Do I Need to Use Mycorrhizal Fungi in My Garden?
Mycorrhizal fungi rootgrow has become a common feature of garden centres of late, and has been advertised as a product that can greatly boost your plant’s health. But does it […]
Posted On: 14/03/17
Hedging, Jorge, Plants

7 Great Alternatives to Box Hedging
Forgoing box is a real shame as it possesses all the characteristics required for low maintenance natural hedging. It responds well to clipping, and is slow growing, often needing to […]
Posted On: 09/03/17
Gardening, Hedging, How To, Jorge, Pest Control

Treating Box Blight and Other Box Problems
Ever since the 1990s, gardeners have had to witness the destruction of their natural hedging projects due to the emergence of new fungal diseases targeting Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens). This has […]
Posted On: 07/03/17

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