Armchair gardening
When the weather makes physical gardening impractical, it is time to accept the inevitable and do some gardening in your head or on paper instead. Plan what you are going to grow in the coming season...
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Ground preparation Continue clearing ground for new beds, digging out perennial weeds and leaving soil rough for the frost to break it down. Garden compost or well-rotted manure can be added at the...
View ArticleBulbs, corms and tubers
Checking stored bulbs and corms Check stored bulbs and corms and discard any that have become either soft or diseased. Forced bulbs Continue to examine bowls and pots of sprouted bulbs and move them...
View ArticleContainer gardening
Planting deciduous shrubs In good weather continue planting hardy deciduous trees and shrubs, especially any bare-root or root balled plants. Make sure that all the containers have good drainage and...
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KEEP CHRISTMAS COLOURFUL WITH VITAX DRIP FEEDS
Keep your plants vibrant and strong this winter with the help of Vitax Poinsettia and Christmas Cacti Drip Feed. Specifically developed to support plants through the colder months when Poinsettia are...
View ArticleGreenhouses and frames
Temperature and ventilation Plant growth is at its lowest ebb this month, owing to the brief hours of daylight. It is a mistake to try to make plants grow more rapidly by raising the temperature, as...
View ArticleHouse and conservatory plants
Buying new plants Avoid buying indoor plants that are displayed out in the cold. Purchase plants at the end of shopping trips and have them carefully wrapped. Check on the correct name of the plant and...
View ArticleTrees, shrubs and hedges
Planting As long as the soil is not frozen or waterlogged, you can continue planting deciduous trees and shrubs throughout the month. During December, trees used for screens or hedges and many...
View ArticleVegetables
Order vegetables seed from mail order catalogues. These have a greater choice of vegetable varieties then is available in garden centres and shops in the spring. It is worth trying a few new varieties...
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Arts & Crafts Gardens by Helen Gazeley
What picture springs to mind of the Edwardian era? A tubby, bearded king? Elegant dresses? Suffragettes? Or, summed up in Samuel Hynes’ description of Edwardian England—“a long garden party on a golden...
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January
Following Christmas, January can always seem to be a long cold month. However as the days get longer plants and flowers begin to bud and there is plenty around to enjoy. Daphne bholuaM Daphnes are...
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WINTER TREE WASH
Vitax Winter tree wash is a blend of natural plant and fish oils for controlling over-wintering insect pests on fruit trees and bushes during the dormant season. Suitable for edible and ornamental...
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John Negus says ….
Well known and respected garden writer and lecturer John Negus reports that after chatting to the Hartley Wintney, Hampshire U3A on achieving year-round colour in the garden, he conducted a quiz in...
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Coronation Festival, Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace Garden to host Coronation Festival for Royal Warrant Holders The Gardens at BUCKINGHAM PALACE will be the venue for a one-off event next summer for holders of Royal Warrants to...
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Slug Gone wool pellets
Brian Gillard of GrowAid announced that since joining forces with Vitax in 2012, he is delighted to hear that sales of Slug Gone have increased dramatically. This outstanding product, although no...
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Rolling Out the Rock Gardens by Helen Gazeley
A rockery was once almost grounds for divorce. After labouring several days on a (very) short south-facing slope, I proudly summoned my husband. He took one look. “That’s not a rockery,” he said,...
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Slug Gone wins gold!
One of Vitax’s premier products, Slug Gone, has scooped a gold medal award at the Totally DIY Show in Best New Garden Product for the 2013 category. The organic and highly effective barrier against...
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Garden Press Day
Vitax had a very successful day at the Garden Press Event on 14th February, at the new venue – The Barbican. We met many members of the gardening press, and our PR team (Vicci and Hannah) made some...
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Slug Gone on the radio
Steve Bradley, a well known garden writer for the Sun newspaper and who also has a gardening programme on local radio, was extolling the virtues of Slug Gone this weekend after seeing it at the Garden...
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Vitax on the move
Vitax is taking to the road in a fully liveried vehicle with the support of Graylaw Freight Group. We took our first look at the branded 13.6 metre, double-decker trailer at our Skelmersdale office...
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