Eco Friendly Garden Maintenance

A lot of people are geared up to organic gardening and try to avoid using pesticides and other chemicals on their crops.  How many though think about the properties of the cleaning and maintenance products that they use in their garden or on garden tools?

FairWind – Fair Trade Gifts

TGF are huge fans of FairWind and we think you will be too! FairWind sells wonderful ranges of Fair Trade gifts and handicrafts that have been handmade with great care and attention to detail.  The company only stock the finest, high quality Fair Trade products that are desirable and well priced for the British consumer and [...]

Make The Most Of Wind In Your Garden

Sound and movement can bring another dimension to your home and garden.  It seems particularly apt to make use of natural resources like the wind to bring interest to your surroundings.  There are any number of lovely things available that can make the most of the wind and I’ve selected a few made by artisans. [...]

Maincrop Organic Seed Potatoes

If you are serious about gardening organically, you probably want your vegetable patch to be organic above all else.  After all if you are going to be eating the food that you produce, you’ll want to ensure it’s as good as it can be.  Recently, we covered organic seeds  and looked at the principles of [...]

Top 5 Tips for a Low Maintenance Garden

If your business is set within wider grounds, it is important that they project the right image to new and returning customers alike. Your outdoor space should be neat and professional, projecting an image that is in keeping with the rest of your business. Unfortunately, taking care of a large garden can be extremely time [...]

Rustic Bird Boxes

There’s no wrong time of year to put up a bird box.  Some bird species make nests later than others. Some birds have more than one brood a year and will look around for another site for the second batch.  Birds will also use bird boxes simply to shelter from the weather.  Spring is when [...]

The Importance and Benefits of Tongue & Groove Cladding

When you’ve made the decision to add a log cabin to your garden, it pays to take the time to do your research to find the right balance between the amount you can afford to pay for a garden cabin and the quality of the room you’re going to purchase. It’s a false economy to [...]

How to Maintain Garden Fencing

Once you invest in the expense of installing garden fencing it makes good commonsense that you find out and understand how it needs maintaining, not only during the summer season, but across the winter as well. With this information at hand you’ll prolong the life of your fence panels which will help you keep them [...]

Worried about the cold weather? Add a Greenhouse to Your Garden

For a gardener in the UK, it’s difficult to know when spring is going to arrive. In recent years it appears that more snow has landed across the islands compared to the previous 20 years – even if the statistics prove otherwise. The first snowdrops and the beginning of bluebell shoots are often quickly covered [...]

Organic Seeds

Some gardeners pour over their seed catalogues over Christmas, but others wait until it’s time to plant.  If you’re looking at buying seeds now that the weather is getting warmer and there are signs of spring around us, then you might want to consider buying organic seeds this year. If you want your garden to [...]

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