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
Rocky outcrop landscape with red kite
View of limestone rocky landscape with red kite circling overhead and rough grassland and occasional trees; based on the uplands at Gilfach nature reserve near Rhayder, Wales
Smew Mergellus albellus
Smew Mergellus albellus pen and ink illustration of the bird swimming on water
Barn owl Tyto alba
Barn owl Tyto alba peering out from barn rafters
Black Casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata
Black Casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata