Ericaceous compost is lime-free and more acidic than most composts. Plants such as azaleas, heathers, blueberries and camellias cannot tolerate lime and need an acidic soil. Traditionally ericaceous ...

No time or room to make your own compost? So, how do you choose what's best for you from the wide range in garden centres? As spring approaches, we'll be sowing, planting, mulching and digging - but ...

AS SPRING approaches, we'll be sowing, planting, mulching and digging – but which compost do we need for each job? There are basically two types of compost: Soilless and soil-based. Soilless types are ...

This is officially my best-ever year for peat-free gardening. I’ve been growing beautiful as well as productive plants without peat-based composts for many moons, but this season has been exceptional ...

Heathers were once the national plant of upland Britain, they were a part of our psyche and appeared everywhere, not in the least on the front of almost every car that visited the moors - a sprig of ...

As spring approaches, we’ll be sowing, planting, mulching and digging – but which compost do we need for each job? To keep things simple, be aware that there are basically two types of compost: ...