Short, practical gardening videos for UK gardens — what to do this week, why it works, and when it is not worth bothering. Each video has a kit list explaining what the job actually needs and what to look for when choosing it.
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From the latest video
- Don’t check your bonfire. Move it. Notes A hibernating hedgehog’s heart slows to twenty beats a minute, so it will not move when you lift a branch. What the hedgehog charities actually say — and what to do if you find one. Four places your leaves can go Notes Only one of them is a mistake. Why the blackspotted leaves are fine, what actually ruins leaf mould — and the bag that turns a November afternoon into seed compost.
Earlier videos
- The hedge is eating your border Notes Plants keep dying at the back of the border. Five fixes in order of effort, the trench and barrier specification — and the one root you must not cut. Bulbs: what goes in now, and what waits Notes Daffodils are already late and tulips can wait — but the reason everyone gives for waiting is not the one the RHS gives. Plus the depth rule most people get wrong.
- Free plants: dividing perennials Notes Which plants divide and which you would kill, the three ways to split a clump by root type, and the one perennial to leave until spring.
- Don’t cut it all back yet Notes The big tidy is a February job. What to leave standing, what the old stems are actually doing — and the one thing that does need cutting out now.
- Roses at the end of the season Kit Why the hard prune waits until February, the three jobs worth doing now — and why you can have flowers or hips, but not both.
- Trimming lavender in September Kit There is a deadline, and there is one cut that will not grow back. Shears or secateurs — and why that matters less than where the blade goes.
- Fitting a water butt Kit Autumn brings about a third more rain than summer — and a butt fitted in November catches none of it. Size, siting and the diverter.
- When to start mowing again Kit Two tests before the mower comes out, what height to set it to — and the one thing the RHS says not to do to recovering turf this autumn.
- Lawn recovery after drought Kit What the video actually calls for — and why waiting two weeks comes before buying anything.
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