pests

Spider mite damage webbing and mite illustration

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

White rose showing damage grom the garden pest thrip which leads to discolouration, browning, and a sick lookin plant, insect inset

How to build a deck or build your own decking

Cut through of a wormery or worm compost bin showing fresh organic matter at the top and lvwer down a rich looking compost full of healthy worm, all in one handy bucket with a tap for drianing off the super nutrient rich compost juice

How to grow figs or propegate figs from an established plant by taking cuttings and potting them up

Step by step stages showing how to remove a plant safely and plant it into a larger pot where it can flourish, seven steps

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

Leaves and bud and flower of a rose covered wuith powdery mildew and mould, and causing discolouration of the leaves

Garden with plastic sheet on the grass catching the bamboo cuttings which are being taken off the potted plants with secateurs. Dead leaves piled up and blue sky behind

Aphid on rose showing damage done to youg leaves and an aphid in side view, cut to white

Little rocket seedlings growing in a seedling tray in compost, ready to be thinned out or planted on

Half a barrel adapted to be a pond with water and flowering pond plants in including arrowroot, flowering rush, and spearwort

stem of a rose with the effects of canker being lesion, discolouration, yellowing and weakening of the plant

Stone trough planted with a variety of ferns as a garden feature, cut to white

Building a garden tool rack with spaces for garden forks, half moon, edgeing tool, shears, edging clippes, in a garden on a patio

Picture showing black death virus effects on a hellebore flower and on the leaves