Gardening 1:1 Lessons
If you would like a one to one gardening lesson to know how to look after your garden:
*See also Plant & Soil Health
- Specific pruning advice, showing you how and letting you know when to prune for best flowering and fruiting.
- Plant and soil improvement.*
- Grow your own fruit, veg , salad, herbs and edible or cut flowers.
- Propagation - growing from seed, taking cuttings, potting on.
*See also Plant & Soil Health
Grow your own
I can provide month-by-month, hands-on or Zoom tutorials, mentoring you through the growing season in your own garden, showing you how to grow your own tasty fruit, vegetables, salads, herbs and edible flowers to help provide you with optimum nutrition*.
Want to grow fruit and vegetables free from pesticides? Or something different you can't find in the shops?
I can advise you on how and when to prepare your plot, from propagation to planting out, maintenance to harvesting – it’s easy once you know what to do and when.
Aftercare advice
I can provide specific written gardening aftercare advice sheets, depending on the style of gardening and types of plants used.
*For Soil Biome and Gut Biome information, please see Biodynamic section.
Want to grow fruit and vegetables free from pesticides? Or something different you can't find in the shops?
I can advise you on how and when to prepare your plot, from propagation to planting out, maintenance to harvesting – it’s easy once you know what to do and when.
Aftercare advice
I can provide specific written gardening aftercare advice sheets, depending on the style of gardening and types of plants used.
*For Soil Biome and Gut Biome information, please see Biodynamic section.
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Review: If you would like to book a gardening lesson or a grow your own session,
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Gardening Monthly To Do's
Winter - Early Spring To Do’s
January
January
- Clean pots and greenhouses ready for spring
- Weed and mulch with manure any beds, especially around fruit trees, shrubs & Roses
- Disperse worm casts in lawns
- Prune apple and pear trees
- Start forcing rhubarb
- Plan your vegetable crop rotations for the coming season, order any seeds asap!
- Keep putting out food and water for hungry birds
- Make a polythene shelter for outdoor peaches and nectarines, to protect against peach leaf curl
- Prepare vegetable seed beds, and sow some vegetables under cover
- Chit potato tubers
- Protect blossom on apricots, nectarines and peaches
- Net fruit and vegetable crops to keep the birds off
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs that have finished flowering
- Divide bulbs such as snowdrops, and plant those that need planting 'in the green'
- Prune Wisteria
- Prune hardy evergreen hedges and renovate overgrown deciduous hedges
- Prune conservatory climbers such as bougainvillea
- Cut back deciduous grasses left uncut over the winter, remove dead grass from evergreen grasses
- Check for frogs etc and un-net ponds at first signs as they can get caught, injured or die when trapped.
