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Your NEWS FORTNIGHT • Bringing you some of the gardening news highlights
Add colour in the green • This is the best time to plant snowdrops, says Ruth
Planting and caring for your snowdrops
Fancy grasses • Look after ornamental varieties
Get ready for summer colour • Plant and re-pot your lilies for unbeatable flamboyance, says Ruth
Container lilies • Beauties that thrive in pots
Move trees and shrubs now • Relocate them before they start to bud in spring
Protecting lawns from wear and tear
Bulb care • Feed for improved growth
Make a fortune from gardening? • Bob explains how to play findlings keepers with new and self-seeded plants in your garden
Brownfield site biodiversity • Val explains how undisturbed areas, though they may look messy, can provide a home to an exciting array of wildlife.
Get potato ready! • Lucy explains how to make the most of the next few weeks
5 quick jobs
Incredible Edibles • Kim Stoddart outlines a few exciting ideas for the vegetable garden in 2024
Top of the tomatoes • Heritage tomato champion, Lucy Hutchings shares some of her tips
Your guide to growing the best roses • Mike Palmer brings us an uplifting look at roses and explains his top rose growing tips.
Campaigning for camellias • Camellias are easier to grow than many people believe, so Graham Clarke gets on his soapbox to extol their virtues
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Understanding garden soil • Cassie King from British Garden Centres offers a beginner’s guide to plant selection based on soil type
An introduction to a new column
Teen-spirit community gardening • Andrew Oldham explains how much to his relief, his teenage son has started volunteering for a local community garden
Hot Jam! • Plant fruit trees, bushes and perennials now to ensure plenty of ingredients for delectable home-made preserves year after year says Sue Bradley.
4 fabulous flavour combinations to tantalise your tastebuds
Questions
Your GARDENING TEA BREAK • Gardening’s king of trivia and brain-teasers, Graham Clarke
Crossword ...just for fun!
NO DIG Soil Protection • Stephanie Hafferty explains how to to help boost natural resilience in your garden from the ground up…
Planning for saving money • Tidying and propagating keeps cash in your purse
How to take hardwood cuttings
Cleanliness and thriftiness • A little care now will pay dividends later
Four cleaning jobs
What’s On
Loving the loofahs • Becky Searle explains how to successfully grow these fascinating plants
More globe thistles please!
Sustainable winter lawn care • Lawn Association Chairman, David Hedges-Gower, provides his professional view on some commonly asked questions
Your LETTERS TO KIM
The pocket sized read that will have you entertained for weeks!
Tool care • Adam Kirtland explains how with a little time and effort, you can keep tools ticking over for longer
Shiny secateurs
Hand tool makeover
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