Gardening - page 21

Test your soil pH with plants

Sowing in seed holes, give natural selection a boost

Setting up a hedge, flowered, mixed or evergreen?

Comfrey, a multi-purpose powerhouse plant

Lemon thyme, a citrus-scented variety of the famous Mediterranean herb

Fermented comfrey tea, an excellent fertilizer

Grandiflora Magnolia: evergreen star of summer, amazing head-sized blooms

No-stake tomatoes – without cages or stakes, grow tomato directly on the ground!

Metrosideros Carmineus, fun blooms (especially the Ferris Wheel)

Mimosa tree varieties: more blooms in winter!

Roses, wonderful cut flowers for bouquets

The dizzying beauty of a herb spiral right in your own garden

Botrytis, a formidable fungal opponent – Fear not! These tips will eradicate it!

10 cat-killing plants in house and garden

Artemisia vulgaris, how to grow the mugwort herb

Hear it straight from the Wwoofer’s mouth! Samantha’s WWOOFING experience

Remove moss from the lawn – permanently

Shield bugs and stink bugs, not so welcome in the garden!

Curly endive, a salad with a subtle taste

Golden Fashion Rose, wonderful yellow bush rose

Manual lawn mowers and robots, great for small lawns

Rototiller, scores of advantages

Sowing in rows, get the basics right

Marshmallow, a cute medicinal flower

Rhodanthe, superb for dry flowers

Dead-nettle, beautiful little ground cover

Escarole, a lettuce that resists cold weather well

Fuchsia fulgens, beautiful carmine flowers

Summer bulbs, an enchantment to the eye

Grow flowers for food!

Medicinal sage, tips on how to grow and care for it

Pansies for the garden

A paradise for roses in Touraine

Ugly mound in the garden? Wonderful ideas to landscape it!

To reduce lawn care…

Our take on plastic cheating –oops– sheeting, sorry

Flowerbeds that are easy to care for

Astrantia, how to care for masterwort

5 fragrant rose varieties for planting around the house

Lungwort, how to plant, care for, and grow Pulmonaria

Rainwater systems: determine the size and design you need

Going away for a while? Tips for plant care when absent

Wormwood weedy tea, ferment Artemisia against fungus and pests

5 weeds people hate but gardeners love

A run of the hoe saves two of the hose! Why and how to hoe

Lawn grass clippings and compost: what’s the big deal?

Green hellebore species and varieties, quiet garden beauties

Seaweed, great fertilizer for the veggie garden

Lenten rose, the longest-lasting blooming of all hellebore

Small-flower Clematis varieties… but incredible climbers!

Manure, give this sh*t a thought… it’s great for plants!