Laying turf
Laying turf showing how to prepare the ground, roll out the turf, and trim the grass to shape
Planting a pot
Step by step stages showing how to remove a plant safely and plant it into a larger pot where it can flourish, seven steps
Removing a branch
How to safely remove a branch, two steps showing the cuts involved
Laying bricks
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
Building a compost bin
Eight steps showing how to build a compost bin from planks
Making a pond
Six steps showing how to ready the ground, dig your pond, line your pond, and successfully fill your pond with water
Bulb planting depth chart
Chart showing how deep to plant different spring bulbs along with illustrations of the flower each bulb produces
Crop rotation plan
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
Cross support in flower pot
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
Dividing clumping perennials
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
Double digging
Diagram showing how to do double digging of a flower bed or vegetable plot
Earthing up
Illustrations showing how to use a hoe to searth up or pile soil around a newly planted plant
Putting up a greenhouse
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
Putting up a poly tunnel
How to erect a polytunnel in six stages including how to put up the metal hoops, how to secure and attach the polythene covering, how to secure the bottom edges of the polythene, and how to build in an entrance way or door
Making decking
How to build a deck or build your own decking
Propegating fig
How to grow figs or propegate figs from an established plant by taking cuttings and potting them up
Schematic of trees in a tropical forest
Ink drawing showing different trees, vines, and lianas in a tropical African forest such as in Ghana
Wetland chalk meadow landscape
Wetland chalk meadow with stream running through it, flooded meadow withflowers and wild vegetation on the banks
Wet meadow landscape
Wetland chalk meadow with stream running through it, flooded meadow withflowers and wild vegetation on the banks and a willow tree leaning across the stream
Okavango Delta landscape
Ink landscape of the wetlands of the Okavango delta in Botswana showing palm trees, wetlands, and associated wildlife such as hippo, cranes, termite mounds, storks, and crocodile
Peat bog landscape
Ink landscape of a peat bog upland with wading wetland birds including curlew, green plover or peewit, great northern diver, and golden plover in summer plumage all gathered around a shallow tarn or pool
Reedbed landscape with cross section of water
Landscape of a reed bed with a cross section of the water in the forground and showing fish and amphibians living in the water, along with a close up of some microscopic aquatic invertebrates; in the sky hobby hunt for dragonfly and damselfly and swallows fly; otter, bittern, and water vole hide in the margins […]
Rice paddy landscape
Wetland landscape of a rice paddy with a farmer tending the rice plants in the flooded fields and with Cattle egret, White crane, palm trees, and women planting rice in the distance near a hut or shelter, mountains loom up behind the pastoral scene as the crane flies overhead
Marsh landscape
Landscape showing Yellow flag iris, meadowsweet, arrow root growing next to a stream wending its way through a meadow, Black and white.