This is a lovely website featuring an allotment, with videos, posts and plenty of photos! Not just allotment either as there’s recipes too and food preserving hints!
Visit On the allotment now!

Seedy Penpals is also a great way to

Meet and make new friends who share your interest in gardening
Find new blogs you may like
Share your experience of different plants and how to grow & care for them
Increase your knowledge about how to grow & care for plants
Save & share your favourite varieties
Protect plant biodiversity
Conserve and promote heritage varieties of plants
Make sure your surplus seeds are not wasted

Tatton Park Flower Show – 25th – 28th July:

The North’s greatest garden party has lots of fresh ideas for visitors who enjoy
growing their own fruit and veg. See them at the Great British Allotment area,
or if ornamental plants are more your thing, head to the Floral Marquee to find
a huge choice from some of the UK’s top nurseries.

Buy tickets now – or join the RHS and get a massive discount on your tickets!

The show will have four fabulous zones to explore:
Grow is the floral heart of the show – your chance to see magnificent displays of rare and familiar plants. Pick the brains of leading nurserymen and RHS experts and buy fabulous plants and practical tools. The ever popular floral marquee will be hosting a series of hands-on demos for you to join in.

Inspire pushes the boundaries of garden design with cutting-edge ideas and concepts. This year’s Young Designer Gardens feature Eco Innovations, while the Galaxy Gardens look to the heavens for inspiration.

Feast is a celebration of everything ‘Grow your Own’! The zone takes you all the way from edible gardens and Great British Allotments to fruit and vegetable competitions, plot-to-plate demonstrations and the Great Taste Food Market.

Escape brings the seaside to the heart of Cheshire for this evocation of country and coastal living. It’s a shopper’s paradise, featuring beautiful furniture, practical tools and over 100 artists and craftspeople.

Plus they have the RHS Summer Fruit & Vegetable Competition Pavilion which will house the best of Grow Your Own along with specialist fruit and herb exhibitors.

Royal Horticultural Society holds some of the world’s best known flower shows.

Join the RHS as a member and get Free garden visits, Discounted shows tickets, A monthly magazine and Personalised gardening advice!

If you’re planning on going to their shows and would love to visit other gardens through the year then it makes perfect sense to buy a membership to the RHS right now.

Discounts on show tickets are:
Save up to 23% on RHS Chelsea Flower Show tickets
Save up to 39% on RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show tickets
Save up to 32% on RHS Flower Show Tatton Park tickets

You can visit the four RHS gardens too – take along a family guest for free to the four RHS Gardens: Wisley; Hyde Hall; Harlow Carr and Rosemoor
Plus you get to explore more than 145 RHS Partner Gardens for free at selected periods for the main member

If you love gardens then you should really be a member of the RHS.

Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 9th – 14th July:

RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, we’re combining the exquisite beauty
of one of Britain’s greatest flower shows with all the fun and excitement
of a spectacular summer festival.

Show times
Tuesday to Saturday 10am-7.30pm

Afternoon tickets for Tuesday to Saturday valid from 3- 7.30pm

Sunday 10am-5.30pm

Afternoon tickets for Sunday valid from 2.30-5.30pm (plant sell off 4.30pm)

Please note: Tuesday and Wednesday are members-only days
Members can book up to four tickets in total for a members’ day
Members can book up to four tickets in total at members’ price

No dogs except assistance dogs
Each paying adult may bring two children aged under 16 free of charge

About the Hampton Court Flower Show
The show is a massive event and one all gardeners will really enjoy.
There’s the grow zone
Floral Marquee – with around 90 top nurseries and plant experts
Plant Village – our informal plant fair featuring specialists
Plant Heritage Marquee – celebrating 35 years of the charity and rare and usual plants
Tradestands – find new sheds, pots irrigation systems and more
Pollinators Garden and Marquee – find out why plant pollinators, like bees, are vital.
Talks and Children’s Marquee – the Talks Theatre will become an interactive children’s zone at the weekend.

Escape zone are;

Country Living Magazine Pavilion – 120 artists and crafts people selling stylish products
Rose Marquee – with a vintage theme
Summer Gardens – with edible garden displays
Grow your own and Artisan Food Marquee – regional artisan food producers plus cookery demonstrations
Gardening presenter David Domoney – hosting floral fashion shows plus celebrity guests
Tradestands – packed with lifestyle products

Inspire Zone
8 Conceptual Gardens – designed to challenge design concepts, many with a sustainable theme
4 Low Cost, High Impact Gardens – see gardens designed on a budget of £7k, £10k, £13K and £15k
Show and Summer Gardens – new trends in outdoor living
Hands On area- demonstrations to guide your garden design technique
Garden Design clinic – and find out about Adult Learning courses at RHS Garden Wisley.

The

If you grow your own herbs then this is something you could probably use to help dry some of your herb crop to ensure you have dried herbs in the cupboard for over winter.
Whilst we’d all love to use fresh herbs all year round it is really hard with lots of plants to keep them growing through the year. Growing a surplus and drying them is a great way of storing and being able to use your own home-grown herbs all year round.

Herb Dryer £29.50
Our herb dryer is a practical, easy-to-use and stylish device designed to dry herbs, seeds, chilies, mushrooms and more.Air drying is an ancient effective method of preserving crops, which intensifies flavours and enables you to use your home grown and foraged produce all year round.Made from salvaged rubber wood with thee unbleached cotton sheets, the dryer is easy to assemble and comes with instructions .
Measures 37cm wide by 37cm deep by 26cm high.

I’ve never had a wormery but its so tempting!

The Original Wormery Deluxe Kit £89.95
The Deluxe Original Wormery Kit including an Original Wormery, Wormery stand. compost caddy, insulation jacket and composting with worms book!

The Tiger Wormery (3-Tray) Black Deluxe Kit £76.95
Our brand new, improved, multi-tray Wormery, with TIGER (worm) POWER!

The Tiger Wormery (4-Tray) Black £72.95
Our brand new, improved, multi-tray Wormery, with TIGER (worm) POWER!

The Tiger Wormery (3-Tray) Black £64.95
Our brand new, improved, multi-tray Wormery, with TIGER (worm) POWER!

The Original Wormery with Stand £59.95
Our excellent Original Wormery complete with a stand to allow easy access to the tap.

The Tiger Wormery Pet Poo Loo £57.90
The Tiger Wormery Pet Poo Loo is a great way to turn pet poo into great worm castings (compost) and a liquid fertiliser for your garden.

The Original Wormery £52.95
The Original Wormery is our best selling all-in-one Wormery and was the very first commercially available Wormery – invented nearly 20 years ago by our MD, Clive Roberts.

The Midi Wormery £42.95
The Midi Wormery is the smaller sister of our bestselling Original Wormery, and slightly larger than our Junior Wormery. The middle of our range of Wormeries, The Midi Wormery is ideal for locations where space is limited – and also fits neatly into many kitchen cupboards! The Midi Wormery operates in a similar way to both the Junior Wormery and our Original Wormery, through an internal drainage system.

If you don’t want a standard water butt in your garden then why not look at these as options?

475L Evergreen Tree Trunk Water Butt £269.95
The Evergreen Tree Trunk Water Butt holds an impressive 475 Litres (104 Gallons).The design for this unique rainwater tank is from an actual German Oak tree trunk. A highly realistic finish was obtained through a special weather proofing treatment of the PE; it’s so realistic it’s hard to separate from the original.Evergreen comes in either light brown or dark brown.It comes complete with a wall fixing bracket and a 3/4″ Brass Tap, with connection points for a screw in tap, and a side outlet for draining and connecting to another water butt. There is a child safety lock integrated within the lid.We recommend using a 3p Filter Collector for filling from your down pipe.Height: 120cm / Diameter: 70-78cm / Capacity: 475Litres (104 Gallons)

300L Finesse Wood Effect Water Butt £359.95
Real wooden shingles and Nordic spruce were the inspiration for this truly unique rainwater tank. Due to its slim form and the small footprint, there will be space for it in the even smallest garden.It has a volume of 300 litres (65 gallons) and a height of 175 cm, it blends in well next to garden sheds or alongside lap panel fencing.Finesse comes in either light brown or dark brown.It comes complete with a wall fixing bracket and a 3/4″ Brass Tap, with connection points for a screw in tap, and a side outlet for draining and connecting to another water butt.We recommend using a 3p Filter Collector for filling from your down pipe.Height: 175cm / Depth: 40cm / Width: 60cm / Capacity: 300Litres (65 Gallons)

New item at Harrod Horticultural

Allotment Corner Wooden Raised Beds £25.00
Theres Always A Corner Of The Garden That You Cant Quite Squeeze A Normal Square Or Rectangular Vegetable Growing Raised Bed Into, But That Could All Be About To Change With These 122cm X 122cm X 172cm Allotment Corner Style Wooden Raised Beds.these Corner Beds Are Available In 3 Heights 15cm, 30cm And 45cm And Are Ideal For Growing Vegetables, Salads And Herbs. Designed In-house And Made From Pressure Treated Fsc Certified Timber The Corner Beds Come With A 5 Year Structural Guarantee.also Available As An Optional Extra Is The Tubing, Connectors And Insect Mesh Cover For Complete Crop Protection.please Note That As Timber Is A Natural Product And Is Susceptible To Shrinkage/swelling, All Sizes Are Therefore Nominal. Sizes Apply To External Dimensions.each Corner Wooden Raised Bed Measures 122cm X 122cm X 172cmavailable In 3 Working Heights; 15cm, 30cm Or 45cmresearched And Designed In-househigh Pressure Treated With A Non-toxic Preservativestructurally Guaranteed For 5 Yearscomplete With Full Instructionssimple To Assembleoptional Capping Gives The Top Of The Beds An Elegant Finishsupplied As A Kit For Self Assemblyoptional Extra (gdn-977) Includes Tubing, Connectors And Insect Mesh Cover.standard Corner Raised Beds Superior Corner Raised Beds Also Available.

GreenFingers has cut the price of these items

Spring Bulbs – Gladioli Vuelta 10 Pack was £2.49 now £1.24
The Gladioli Vuelta is a lovely plant ideal for use as cut flowers with its ultra-attractive and alluring red shade. Flowers are a great

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