Help! Gardening Tips!!

Hello all,

hope you're all well! I am a journalist for a major men's publication and I am writing a feature on Gardening for our June issue. Of copurse, I haven't a clue about it so i need your help!

Could all the garden glitterati out there give me any helpful tips on managing your garden. It can be on any aspect of gardening, the funnier, the more unusual, the quirkirer the better!

hope to hear from you soon, if i use your tips I'll send you a copy of the mag!

thanks

Alex

 

Alex, As you can see by the posts to GC this is a large subject and to give anyone a detailed account of General gardening would be enormous. If you look in the various sections here you will find a lot of information which may help. Good luck with the mag.

 

Alex: My garden is really my wife's garden! That is when there are flowers to cut for the house or when she is showing her friends round. It is also the play area for a five years old labrador dog as well as his 'toilet' area much of the time. With squirrels digging their holes in the lawn - bird seed and peanuts scattered around ensuring that the lawn grows plenty of weeds/etc.

How does one deal with dozens of plastic pots collected over the years all different sizes and colours ensuring problems in storage. My garden shed is crumbling with dampness exacerbated by my neighbour's unwillingness to cut back plants on his/her side especially the invasive kinds like Ivy/etc.Trips to the local waste tip are a joy particularly at this time of the year when pruning lots of shrubs - what about composting you may ask - it's a joke I would need double the area of the garden to compost all the excess.

Enough of this - I can see new shoots coming up - the snowdrops/some daffodils, primroses are up and about this is the real joy of gardening. These wonderful plants/flowers which sleep through the winter then show off their wondeful clour pallette each in turn coming into life through the year - an excellent hobby for one and all.....

Bye

Doug............