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Growing Winter Vegetables: A Guide to Planting In Winter
With Autumn firmly here and winter on the way, many gardeners choose to put their gloves away and store their tools until warmer weather prevails. Another growing season has come to an end. For others though, the unmistakable winter weather marks the start of a new opportunity, growing winter vegetables.
If you’re like us you want to get the
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Crop Rotation Plan: How To Do Crop Rotation
Contrary to popular belief, understanding crop rotation and creating a crop rotation plan is quite simple. When starting out, many gardeners may not know much about crop rotation. This can lead to low yields, even if plants and vegetables have been grown well and looked after properly.
In this article, we are going to take you through the basics
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4 Insider Tips For Vegetable Garden Planting Success
There’s been a recent trend in people growing fruit and vegetables in their outdoor spaces. The great thing about growing your own fruit and vegetables is that it’s easy to get started and you can save money on grocery bills. However, it doesn’t always go to plan. Follow these vegetable garden planting tips to ensure you get a good, healthy
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Vegetable Garden Not Producing? Try These Solutions
One of the great things about vegetable gardening is that you can plant and harvest all year round. From cauliflower and carrots in January to spinach and beans in July. However, it can be disheartening if your vegetable garden is not producing after putting in a lot of hard work.
If you’re having problems, fear not. We’ve racked our
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How To Choose The Best Garden Netting For Your Project
Whether you’re carrying out a complete garden overhaul or just adding new features, it’s likely that at some point you will need to purchase garden netting. Choosing the best garden netting depends entirely on your project, and there are many types to choose from. We’re here to help advise you on the most suitable netting to use based on the
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Get Started With Strawberry Growing
Since 1953, strawberries have been long associated with Wimbledon. Whilst our sister company Edwards Sports are renowned for providing Wimbledon with the finest Tennis Nets in the World, here at William James we provide our customers with quality garden netting perfect for growing strawberries.
Here's our guide to growing the perfect strawberries
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Surprising Uses for Egg Shells
Surprising uses for Egg Shells
Next time you crack an egg ready to cook don’t be so quick to throw the shell away. Not only do eggs have multiple uses, but their shells are quite handy too!Compost
The shells themselves are packed full of essential nutrients such as calcium which are beneficial to your plants, as such they are great to use
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7 Homemade Weed Killers
If you need a cost effective way of keeping your garden weed free, then these remedies use things you can find around your house.
1. Boiling Water
Boiling water is an extremely effective weed killer, even more effective than many of weed killers that can be bought in stores. All you need to do is heat up water until it is boiling then carefully
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Christmas shutdown 2018
We will be shutdown for Stock take over Christmas, our last day of despatch is the 19/12/18 and we reopen on the 02/01/19. We would like to wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year
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I cannot recommend this company highly enough
I cannot recommend this company highly enough; I wanted a fruit cage for my rather strangely shaped fruit bed and an internet search brought up their details. From the first phone call to Dave, querying whether in fact they could help me, through the process of photographing and measuring my plot, I felt 100% confident in their knowledge, skill and
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