beginner's

Example of a fruit tree grown into a standard pattern

Example of a fruit tree grown into a fan pattern

Example of a fruit tree grown into a bush pattern, in this case an apple

Different shapes you can trim your hedge into including boxy, sloped, and rounded

Garlic being plaited together for storage and drying, illustration showing the way to include more bulbs to make a big clutch of garlic bulbs

Basic overview of the different shapes and styles of greenhouse available

Diagram of a greenhouse showing vents, shape, waterbut, and doors

How to take a hardwood cutting from a parent plant, four steps showing making the cutting, dipping it in hormone rooting powder, and establishing it in a new pot to grow

Steps involved in establishing or laying a new hedge showing digging a trench for compost, planting the hedge plants, pruning them, and keeping the hedge straight

How to layer bulbs of different sizes which grow at different depths in a pot

Steps showing how to level the ground, set up the foundations, make a screed, and how to lay a smooth concrete path

Steps involved in laying paving slabs or stones and keeping them level and flat and removing the mortar from between the slabs

Laying turf showing how to prepare the ground, roll out the turf, and trim the grass to shape

How to safely remove a branch, two steps showing the cuts involved

How to build a brick wall, showing how to dig, place foundations, mortar the bricks to the wall and ensure your wall ends up level

Eight steps showing how to build a compost bin from planks

Six steps showing how to ready the ground, dig your pond, line your pond, and successfully fill your pond with water

Chart showing how deep to plant different spring bulbs along with illustrations of the flower each bulb produces

Three different sets of crops to grow on the same site which ensures the variety of vegetables grown won’t suffer pest damage which they could do if planted repeatedly on the same site. Vegetables shown include peas beans chicory and onions, sprouts cauliflower cabbage and broccoli, and celery carrots turnips potato and beetroot

Diagram showing how a cross support in a flower can can be used to keep a vertical support upright and so help keep the plant upright

Diagram showing how to dig up clumping perennials such as hosta and divide them with the blade of a spade before returning them to the soil

Diagram showing how to do double digging of a flower bed or vegetable plot

Illustrations showing how to use a hoe to searth up or pile soil around a newly planted plant

Stages involved in building erecting or putting up a greenhouse from establishing the foundations to building the frame to fitting the glass panels or panes