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Your December Garden: Top Tips & Advice
The first of the winter months is here, bringing with it the shortest day of the year. With colder temperatures and less daylight hours, this is a month often best spent cosying inside, dreaming about your New Year gardening plans. There are, however, plants to enjoy outside and inside the home plus delicious vegetables to harvest for warming soups and casseroles. What to Enjoy Now The rich red berries of skimmia, brightening up the…
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Grow Your Own | What To Do in October
In the vegetable garden, October is the time to finish your harvest for many plants. It is also a good month to clear your vegetable plot ahead of winter, taking care of any crops that you plan to leave in throughout winter. Sowing & Planting Sowing Outdoors There are a small number of crops that can be sown now and left to overwinter. Sow over-wintered broad beans, garlic, autumn-planting onions / shallots - including spring…
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Grow Your Own | What To Do in September
For those growing their own produce, September is often one of the most prolific months. You may be enjoying picking a bumper harvest this month, as well as steadily preparing your garden or allotment for next year. Sowing & Planting Sowing Outdoors It might seem late in the year, but there are still a number of crops that can be planted directly outdoors now – either those that are fast-growing, or those that will over…
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Your September Garden: Top Tips & Advice
September heralds the start of autumn and a noticeable change of season. As days get shorter, nature gradually transforms towards spectacular fiery reds and golds — although there are often beautiful balmy days in the garden to be had. This is the month to begin repairing summer damage and preparing for the following spring while appreciating the beautiful colour still around. Read our guide to September gardening jobs to find out what to do this…
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Your August Garden: Top Tips & Advice
The final month of summer in the garden is one to really enjoy the performance of nature around you, at the same time as offering timely care and maintenance. If you are going away, make sure you have a plan in place so you return to a garden in the same good condition that you left it. Read our guide to August gardening jobs to find out what to do this month and helpful gardening…
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Winter Gardening Checklist
As daylight hours drop and the temperature falls, activity in the garden increasingly involves cosying up inside and dreaming about New Year plans. There are, however, plants to enjoy outside on winter walks, some core gardening activities, plus vegetables to harvest for warming soups and casseroles. To help your gardening efforts, we have created a winter checklist with activities to do this season and helpful advice from Hillier experts. Read, download and bookmark or print the checklist below. >> Download Your Winter Garden Checklist Your…
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Successful Grow Your Own with VegTrug
It is no surprise that ‘grow your own’ continues to surge in popularity. You can be 100% confident about where your food produce comes from and how it was grown, along with the incredible sense of satisfaction of picking and eating something you’ve lovingly grown yourself. From large allotments to simple windowsill pots; vegetables, fruit, salad crops and herbs can be grown at any sort of scale. One ‘grow your own’ specialist, VegTrug, has designed…
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Butternut Squash & Sweet Potato Soup Recipe
Serves: 6 Time: 1 hr 10 minutes A filling soup, packed with the rich flavours of the season. Perfect for a hearty autumn lunch. Ingredients 1 large onion, peeled & chopped2 garlic cloves, peeled & chopped500g peeled butternut squash500g peeled sweet potato50ml olive oil1 tablespoon ground cumin1 teaspoon of ground ginger1 ½ litres vegetable or chicken stockSalt and freshly ground black pepperToasted pumpkin seeds to garnish Method 1. Heat the oil in a pan. Add…
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The Allotment Diaries | No 2 Braving the Cold
Steve Harrison, Plant Area Manager at Hillier Garden Centre Newbury, is an expert in growing and caring for plants. But this year, a kindly neighbour has given him a piece of allotment and for the first time he is turning his hands to allotmenteering. In the second installment, he continues growing and sowing and tackles the unseasonably cold April weather. No.2 Braving the Cold | April 2021 "At the allotment, there have been a lot…
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