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Camellia

Propagating Camellia from Cuttings

Camellia are expensive plants - save money! This video shows you how easy propagating camellia is from normal cuttings and how to take a leaf bud cutting.

Controlling Red Spider Mite

Controlling Red Spider Mite

The simple and effective traditional, organic answer to controlling red spider mite in greenhouses. Explained in the video from Tatton Park Gardens

Making Muck Tea Plant Feed

Making Liquid Manure Tea – Muck Tea

Simon Tetlow, deputy head gardener at the famous Tatton Park Gardens, shows how to make liquid manure tea fertiliser, aka muck tea in this video.

Pruning Forsythia

Pruning Forsythia – How to Prune A Forsythia

If you've found yourself unsure where to start pruning forsythia bush when it's finished flowering, this video will give you the answers and show you how

Daffodils from Pots

Daffodils – Planting out from Pots

Planting the daffodil bulbs grown in pots out into a lawn or border will give you many more years of pleasure. How to take them from pot to border explained

Watering New Plants

Watering New Plants Technique

When you water young plants, past the seedling but not fully grown, you can cause harm to the soil and to the plants See how watering should be done.

Soil Warming Methods

Soil Warming Tips – Methods & Ways to Warm the Soil Video

This video presented by Simon Tetlow, shows various ways of soil warming so that you can get ahead of the season, bringing April to March etc.

Staking Herbaceous Plants

Staking Herbaceous Plants

A video with a simple free and quick way to stake out your herbaceous plants with an extra tip at the end that we should all take note of.

Hotbed

Create a Victorian Hotbed for your Garden

Create a small Victorian style hotbed on an allotment or in the garden following the instructions in this video to bring the season forward by a month or so

Seed Sowing Tips

Seed Sowing Tips

This seed sowing tips video shows us how to sow seeds in trays. Like much gardening it is simple on the surface but there's more to it than meets the eye.

Pricking Out Seedlings

Pricking Out Seedlings – Transplanting

In this video Simon Tetlow, deputy head gardener at the world famous Tatton Gardens, shares his secrets for transplanting seedlings successfully.

Sweet Pea Frames Support

Runner Bean Canes & Sweet Pea Frames Video

Sam Youd shows us his bean frames and sweet pea obelisks in this video at Tatton Gardens. We link to other articles on growing and supporting runner beans

Making Hanging Baskets

Making Hanging Baskets – How to Make Hanging Baskets Video

Why pay a fortune at the garden centre when you can make your own hanging baskets easily? You can have a hanging basket the envy of your neighbours!

Deadheading Daffodils

Deadheading Daffodils Video

Deadheading daffodils is good practice to ensure energy goes into the bulbs to give a good show next year of quality flowers. This video shows how.