Delivery on all orders is free at Jersey plants direct. This sets them above almost all other gardening shops. There’s no need to worry about postage charges on a packet of seeds, or a tray of plants. It’s free.

Jersey Plants Direct have free delivery on all orders.

They’re well known for their excellent bedding plants, the choices and prices are amazing! Well worth ordering some of their plug plants if you want a pretty garden. Perfect for filling spaces in the flower borders, or creating tubs of colour to decorate your garden.

What’s hugelkultur?

It’s raised beds based on piles of wood covered with soil.
The wood rots and creates a fantastic environment for the plants (Although at first it might take a lot of water and feeding – once it starts going it’ll be great)

Nice post about it
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National Gardening Week Promotion Code

To celebrate National Gardening Week Rolawn Direct, supplier of high quality
turf, topsoil, bark and lawn care products, are offering a
10% discount on all orders until Sunday 22nd April 2012. Enter code NGW2012
to obtain the discount.

Special Offers

In addition we have the following special offers in place:

Free
topdressing worth £14.50 inc VAT with every turf order.
April Special Offer – 2 small bags of lawn topdressing free with every turf
order at Rolawn Direct. Offer ends 30/4/2012. Free product will be automatically
added to your order at despatch.

Save
£2.50 on Lawn Fertiliser, Weed & Moss Killer
Special Offer – Save £2.50 when you buy Rolawn GroRight Lawn Fertiliser,
Weed & Moss Killer Twin Pack – £15.46 each (£17.96 if bought
separately).

Rolawn Vegetable & Fruit Topsoil (1m³ Bulk Bag – 1,000 litres approx volume when packed) £136.45

Rolawn Turf & Lawn Seeding Topsoil (0.73m³ Bulk Bag – 730 litres approx volume when packed) £122.75

Rolawn Soil Improver (1m³ Bulk Bag – 1,000 litres approx volume when packed) £127.03

Rolawn Play Grade Bark Bag (1m³ Bulk Bag – 1,000 litres approx volume when packed) £152.75

Rolawn Minster Pro Turf (approx 1m² Rolls) £6.47

Rolawn Medallion Turf (approx 1m² Rolls) £5.35

Rolawn Lawn Top Dressing (0.73m³ Bulk Bag – 730 litres approx volume when packed) £169.88

Rolawn Landscaping Bark Pack of 48 x 60 litre Bags £324.86

Rolawn Landscaping Bark Pack of 24 x 60 litre Bags £186.34

Rolawn Landscaping Bark Pack of 16 x 60 litre Bags £140.16

Rolawn Landscaping Bark Pack of 10 x 60 litre Bags £105.60

Rolawn Landscaping Bark (1m³ Bulk Bag – 1,000 litres approx volume when packed) £119.32

This really really works! It’s amazing!
Don’t let the slugs ruin your crops this summer!

Unwins Seeds & Plants has these two size packs of nemaslug available.

It is really easy to use.
Mix into a watering can and water it on!
Fantastic stuff that really stops the slugs.
It’s amazing to think you can just plant out seedlings and not have them eaten!

A must have for anyone growing their own! And it really is so simple and safe! It only kills the slugs and it’s not harmful to any other wildlife!

Nemaslug Slug Killer (100m Pack)* £18.95
We have been conducting our own tests over the last couple of growing seasons and have found Nemaslug to be both easy to apply and effective. Nemaslug contains millions of naturally occurring microscopic nematodes that kill slugs both above and below ground. Completely harmless to birds hedgehogs and other wildlife as wel as pets and children.Please note: The ground temperature needs to be above 5 degrees for the predatory nematodes to be active. View our Nemaslug Slug Killer Fact Sheet When you receive your pack of Nemaslug place it in the refrigerator immediately and use within the use by date (which can be up to four weeks).

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Get water saving free stuff from Anglia Water

They’re for inside the house but they also have a garden kit too which includes::
Water storing crystals
Water storing mats
RHS Water in the garden leaflet
RHS Pocket guide to drought tolerant plants

Be water wise in the garden

If you’re buying new plants then look for ones that don’t need watering and
are drought tolerant.

Get water butts! As many as possible linked up to save water. Get lids on them
though to stop accidents.

Use water retaining crystals in hanging baskets if you must have them!

Water in the early morning or evening when the sun isn’t as strong.

Don’t water lawns. They’ll survive better than you think.

Mulch. And top up where you mulched last year.

Dig in plenty of organic matter to make the soil better at retaining water.

Keep an eye on the weather forecast to see if it’s going to rain.

Couch Grass is also known as bermuda grass according to this wiki page
It sounds better already!

Starting an allotment from scratch? What would you do?

The traditional planting plan is four areas so you can do crop rotation. As well as this though you want areas for a shed, greenhouse, water collection, compost heaps.

Starting completely from scratch sounds really exciting but the hard work involved in turning a blank canvas into an allotment is enormous. If it was all dug over and weed free then that’d be quiet entertaining but starting an allotment from scratch on raw undug ground is a nightmare.

This is what we were faced with last Spring – 2011. The site was created in Chadderton and it’s been a year of hard work and awful weather but it’s starting to really look like an allotment now.

Jersey Plants Direct just added this new product

Mixed Tomatoes Pack 12 Jumbo Ready Plants £9.99
Perfect for tomato lovers – a great mix!

Gardener’s Delight: This variety of tomatoes is a prolific fruiting tomato that produces long trusses of sweet tasting rich flavoured cherry tomatoes. A popular and reliable variety.
I grow this one for normal tomatoes. It always does well.

Tumbling Tom Red F1: This variety of Tomato is perfect for hanging baskets and containers producing an abundance of sweet Cherry Tomatoes throughout the summer. It needs little training, just let it grow and enjoy.
Ideal if you love cherry tomatoes

Tomato Shirley F1: This established variety of Tomato is a cordon type and is ideal for growing in growbags. Can be grown both indoors and outdoors in warmer climates. Producing heavy crops of tasty, disease resistant tomatoes.”

These vegetable plants can be grown on or planted straight out as you choose once the risk of frost has gone.”
I’d keep them in the greenhouse though and heat it when it’s going to be cold at night – at least until the risk of frost has gone. That’s nearly June here!

You could sow your own seeds and pot them on but this saves you the time. Great if you’d rather be doing other things!

Jumbo Ready Plants are grown in individual cells and measure approximately 8-12cm in height from the root of the plant to the top of the stem. They are despatched later in the season as we have grown them to a larger size for you and are ready to be planted straight out into the garden

Saves you starting them off from seed!
Jersey Plants Direct have these sweet pepper plants

Sweet Peppers 6 Jumbo Ready Plants £6.99
Tasty sweet peppers that are incredibly versatileSweet Pepper Mohawk F1: Naturally dwarf in habit. Produces attractive tasty orange Peppers. Sweet Pepper Red Skin F1: Produces green fruit which turns bright red when ripe, juicy flavour. Sweet Pepper Bell Boy F1: Produces an abundance of fruit that can be eaten when green or wait until they turn red before picking. All varieties are ideal for growing inside or out, particularly on a warm south facing patio, in pots or growbags.Varieties include 2 Sweet Pepper Mohawk F1, 2 Red Skin F1 and 2 Bell Boy F1. All varieties will produce an abundance of fruit. Easy to grow and perfect for a warm Patio