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
Aphid on rose
Aphid on rose showing damage done to youg leaves and an aphid in side view, cut to white
Pond in a halfbarrel
Half a barrel adapted to be a pond with water and flowering pond plants in including arrowroot, flowering rush, and spearwort
Canker
stem of a rose with the effects of canker being lesion, discolouration, yellowing and weakening of the plant
Trough of ferns
Stone trough planted with a variety of ferns as a garden feature, cut to white
Garden tool rack
Building a garden tool rack with spaces for garden forks, half moon, edgeing tool, shears, edging clippes, in a garden on a patio
Hellebore black death symptoms
Picture showing black death virus effects on a hellebore flower and on the leaves
Hostas in flower pot
Purple hostas in a blue and white flower pot
Leaf with fungal wilt
Leaf showing signs of fungal wilt with infected branch behind; the leaf is discoloured and wilted
Lily of the Valley
Lily of the valley growing in a large old terra cotta flower pot