Growing Courgettes Video
Courgettes, when young, don't like having their feet wet but when they're producing fruit they need quite a lot of water. This video shows the solution
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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.
Pinching out Broad Beans Tops
Sam Youd, head gardener at the famous Tatton Park Gardens, explains pinching out broad beans tops and shows when to pinch out broad beans and explains why.
Harvesting Early Potatoes Video
Simon Tetlow deputy head gardener at Tatton Park Gardens harvests his first early potatoes and gives us a few tips on home growing them at the same time.
Preparing an Onion Bed
This video show preparing the onion bed for planting out onion seedlings, sets or even for sowing onions directly into the ground featuring a Mantis Tiller
Growing Bulb Onions From Seed
Growing onions from seed, usually undercover either in a greenhouse or coldframe is easier than you might think and avoids any disease problem
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 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.
Sowing Parsley – Getting Parsley to Germinate
Sowing parsley is a fantastic simple tip to ensure your parsley germinates. It's so easy to get a good crop of parsley when you know how to do it.
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
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 – Transplanting
In this video Simon Tetlow, deputy head gardener at the world famous Tatton Gardens, shares his secrets for transplanting seedlings successfully.
Planting Potatoes – How To Plant Potatoes Video
A video showing the traditional method of planting potatoes, shows the chits on potatoes and says when to traditionally plant out your potatoes.
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
Planting Out Broad Beans Video
Starting off broad beans in pots for an early crop is my preferred method. This video shows Sam Youd from Tatton Gardens planting out broad beans. It's easy
Planting Sprouts & Cabbage Root Fly Prevention Tip
How to plant out your sprouts and leafy brassicas - the cabbage family- and control the dreaded cabbage root fly for next to no cost or time at all.
Growing Trench Celery
This is the standard traditional way to grow trench celery, blanching the leaves. The video shows the preparation of the trench and planting out in June
