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Home Gardener supply a wide range of items for the leisure gardener,
making gardening more enjoyable and a little easier. In preparation for the Spring we have a lovely range of Picnic Tables. These benches are great for the garden, especially kids. And to keep your grass in good shape, check out these lawn mowers.
For the grow your own gardeners a greenhouse could the answer to protecting your seedlings in the colder months.
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The best vegetable varieties[...] my seed and plant order has now grown to such an extent that I'm going to need to dig up half my flower garden to accommodate them all!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gardenersworld.com&blog=3888125&post=6020&subd=bbcgardenersworld&ref=&feed=1" />
Growing raspberriesIn our family we say strawberries are the Beatles of the fruit world, but raspberries, which are more rock 'n roll, are the Rolling Stones.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gardenersworld.com&blog=3888125&post=5995&subd=bbcgardenersworld&ref=&feed=1" />
Hoverfly pupariaThe snow has gone completely now, and I take these latent packages as a good sign that spring is coming. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gardenersworld.com&blog=3888125&post=5978&subd=bbcgardenersworld&ref=&feed=1" />
Apple trees: ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’In the summer of 1825 Mrs Cox was sitting in the garden - probably enjoying the sun and, perhaps embroidering a sampler or engaged in some similar 19th Century pursuit...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gardenersworld.com&blog=3888125&post=5965&subd=bbcgardenersworld&ref=&feed=1" />
Gardening to reduce your carbon footprintHow hard would it be to design green roofs for cars? Just imagine: you stop off to pick up some groceries, and on returning to your car, you find it's alive with the sight and sound of butterflies...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gardenersworld.com&blog=3888125&post=5940&subd=bbcgardenersworld&ref=&feed=1" />
Greenhouse cleaningI've been spring cleaning. The greenhouse, of course, not the house. Somehow the lure of the compost and seed trays was much greater than that of the vacuum cleaner and duster.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gardenersworld.com&blog=3888125&post=5925&subd=bbcgardenersworld&ref=&feed=1" />
Dead frogsThis week at gardenersworld.com we've received lots of letters, emails and blog comments from people who have found dead frogs in their pond.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gardenersworld.com&blog=3888125&post=5889&subd=bbcgardenersworld&ref=&feed=1" />
Greenhouse heatingWhile I'm turning the heat down in my home to save energy and reduce CO2 emissions, here I am considering heating my greenhouse to protect plants and provide warmth for early sowings. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gardenersworld.com&blog=3888125&post=5874&subd=bbcgardenersworld&ref=&feed=1" />
Growing shallotsWhen I first started growing shallots I did so on the advice of Sam, on our allotment [...] He told me to plant shallots on the shortest day and harvest them on the longest.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gardenersworld.com&blog=3888125&post=5852&subd=bbcgardenersworld&ref=&feed=1" />
Birds: thrushes and fieldfaresWhen I peered out later in the day, the apple tree was bending under the burden of several plump ... birds.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gardenersworld.com&blog=3888125&post=5842&subd=bbcgardenersworld&ref=&feed=1" />
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