gardening

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

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

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

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

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

Example of a fruit tree grown into a fan pattern

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

Example of a fruit tree grown into a standard pattern

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

Chart showing the estimated eventual full grown height of trees with different sized root stock in cases of fruit tree, presented as an illustrated chart with the original size of the root stock and the final probable size shown in paler form

Example of a fruit tree grown into a dwarf pyramid pattern

Example of a fruit tree grown into a step over or low espalier type or pattern

Examples of four different patterns of fruit tree trained growth type including espalier, step over espalier, dwarf pyramid, and a small standard. Apple trees.

Six different ways to design one garden showing how much variety you can find

Garlic plait showing how the dired out leaves of each garlic plant can be pliated together to hold the bubs in a neat bundle, ready for use in the kitchen or for drying

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

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

Spider mite damage webbing and mite illustration