Tips & Ideas

Gardening Tips and Ideas

This section contains a number of gardening tips and ideas sent in by our readers.

Latest tips and ideas:

• Using Egg Shells to Deter Slugs
• Recycling your old Christmas Tree
• Reusing old tyres as raised beds
• Ripening tomatoes in October
• Over wintering cuttings in a Plunge Bed
• Growing Dwarf French Beans as a second crop in potato grow sacks

Idea of the Month

Our team has voted Linda's idea for Using Egg Shells to Deter Slugs as this month's favourite.

We have lots of other ideas that have been sent in each month, which we will be adding soon, so please visit this page regularly to see them. If you have an idea of your own you want to send in we would love to hear from you.

Send us Your Gardening Ideas

If you have a gardening project or idea you would like us to publish on the site then please email it to the following address for our consideration: