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Latest Guides & Articles
How to Improve Your Soil for Gardening
Reading Time: 9 minutes Do you have sandy soil? Clay soil? pH problems? Tips on how best to improve your soil for gardening.
The 8 Best Garden Football Goals For 2022
Reading Time: 12 minutes While it’s tempting to go out and buy a ‘real’ football goal, it can be a better idea to choose a more..
6 Best Solar Powered Bird Bath Fountains – 2022 Buyers Guide
Reading Time: 10 minutes Buyers guide to the UK’s 6 best solar powered birdbaths and fountains.
7 Best Barbecue Smokers – 2022 Buyers Guide
Reading Time: 13 minutes Summer is a time for BBQ’s with friends and family. However, if you are a ‘smoker’ then their is a world of possibilities
8 Best Small Garden Sheds – Buyers Guide
Reading Time: 16 minutes Small garden sheds come in a myriad of shapes and sizes. It may seem like you don’t have the space for a garden shed, but don’t let your small garden stop
How to find out my soil type | 2 easy ways
Reading Time: 5 minutes Good soil is the foundation of all gardens and allotments. Find out your soil type
Aluminium Greenhouses – Best for 2022
Reading Time: 16 minutes Aluminium greenhouses are a common sight in garden centres and home improvement stores across the country. In addition to being attractive
How to Grow Cucumbers – 4 Tips to Success
Reading Time: 9 minutes How do cucumbers grow? With cucumbers being a staple in many summertime foods, growing one’s own is the perfect way to ensure..
How to Grow Potatoes in a Bag – 4 Easy Steps
Reading Time: 7 minutes Do not let the size of your garden hinder you …
How to Grow Spring Onions In Water
Reading Time: 3 minutes Want to know how to grow spring onions in water? Then follow these easy instructions
10 Outdoor Christmas Wreaths With Lights
Reading Time: 13 minutes Leading up to and during the festive season a front-door wreath is essential for every home…
How to Make a Compost Heap Easily
Reading Time: 6 minutes Organic waste material is a valuable resource that is often just thrown away, Why not make a
How Does Ant Powder Work
Reading Time: 5 minutes English daisies are a common lawn weed, easily recognised by pretty, small, white-petalled flowers with a round..
Raised Beds For Gardens – 4 Tips to Success
Reading Time: 14 minutes Raised beds for gardens and allotments are a great way to grow all sorts of plants, and they’re especially popular for…
The Astonishing Garden Deck Box
Reading Time: 6 minutes We should stress this is not an exhaustive deck box …
How to Lay Turf – 5 Easy Steps to Success
Reading Time: 4 minutes Do you know how to lay turf like a pro? Laying turf is the easiest way to…
Caring for Cyclamen – 9 Points For Success
Reading Time: 7 minutes Caring for Cyclamen plants is a fairly straightforward affair. However, how to look after these beautiful plants is one of the most common questions people ask.
8 Best Cordless Jet Washers – 2022 Buyers Guide
Reading Time: 15 minutes Buyers guide to the 8 best ‘cordless jet washers’ currently on the UK market
How to Grow Water Lilies
Reading Time: 7 minutes You may be wondering how to grow water lilies in your garden. Then if you are there, are a few important quick tips for ensuring
Creeping Buttercup
Reading Time: 5 minutes A creeping buttercup infestation can be particularly tough to eliminate in poorly
Common Catsear
Reading Time: 4 minutes We should state from the beginning that Common Catsear (Hypochaeris radicata) is not the same as dandelions and we will detail
Common Ragwort
Reading Time: 5 minutes Common Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) or ragwort as it is mostly known as, is a native UK biennial plant that provides
All About Cantilever Garden Parasols
Reading Time: 6 minutes Cantilever garden parasols are popular for several reasons. They are easy to store and assemble and provide protection from
Stinging Nettles
Reading Time: 5 minutes Stinging nettles are hardy perennials that develop into 4-6ft (1.2-2m) tall masses.
Common Bellis Perennis Daisy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Common Daisy (Bellis Perrennis) is a common lawn weed and is a native European plant, but has spread as far
Bitter Dock Weed
Reading Time: 6 minutes From the same family as Japanese Knotweed, (Polygonaceae) Bitter Dock Weed (Rumex obtusifolius) is a
Square Planting in 8 Easy Steps
Reading Time: 12 minutes The premise of square planting, square gardening or square foot gardening (SFG) as it’s so often called was developed by
Hairy Bittercress
Reading Time: 4 minutes Although quite an insignificant weed compared to some garden weeds. However, Hairy Bittercress once discovered
How to Freeze Runner Beans
Reading Time: 5 minutes As with most vegetables, runner beans need to be blanched before freezing to help ..
20 Common Garden Weeds Found in the UK
Reading Time: 7 minutes If you have a garden or an allotment, then you are probably well aware of many of the common garden weeds found in the UK
How to Get Rid of Blackfly on Broad Beans
Reading Time: 6 minutes We look at the symptoms, possible prevention, and cure both with ‘pesticide control’ and non-pesticide control
3 Ways of Eradicating Ground Elder
Reading Time: 4 minutes What does European Ground Elder look like? Before we can start eradicating ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) effectively
Bindweed
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’re wondering if this perennial weed is a problem in your garden, then generally yes, bindweed is a problem for most of us. Here’s what you need to know.
About Us
Even though the British garden or backyard can often be a small, uncultivated enclosed space, it’s your space to enjoy. As a retired engineer hailing from the southwest of England, we started Garden Junkie…
