If you start hanging round the garden centres or listening to gardeners, you’re bound to hear the terms ‘potting up’ or ‘potting on’, but what the heck are they talking about?

Potting up, also called potting off, just means Read the rest of this entry »

Some people love the idea of being able to sit out in their garden and feed their pond fish.  However, if your pond is well set up and managed, it should be self-supporting.  The fish will be able to feed on tiny water life such as water snail eggs and mosquito larvae.  Indeed, if they didn’t eat these, then they’d overgrow to an unmanageable amount. Read the rest of this entry »

If you cannot be bothered to mow your lawn, here’s a new way to do it!

Well, if you’re planning any gardening over the Easter weekend, it doesn’t look good.  It seems that the weather forecast is showing showers for Friday, Saturday and Sunday leaving just the Monday to do any light gardening.

If you have a greenhouse, then you might be lucky enough to be able to follow Read the rest of this entry »

Some people grudgingly put up with gardening because they want a pretty garden and somewhere to play with the kids and the dog.  Some people truly resent gardening enough that they will hire a gardener to mow the lawn and keep the weeds down.  Some people hate gardening so much that they gravel or patio the entire area and don’t even want to be bothered keeping plant pots on it.

But the people I really hate are Read the rest of this entry »

I’m willing to bet you can’t imagine how gardening somehow contributed to socio-economics… well, it did

Back in the early 1900’s an Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, remarkably influential in his time, was also a keen gardener. Whilst carefully tending to growing peas, he noticed that 80 percent of his peas were produced by only 20 percent of the peapods. You and I may not have thought anything remarkable about that, but Pareto, a keen observer of economic inequalities noticed that this extends to Read the rest of this entry »