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October 2009

Top winter vegetables to grow in your garden.

27 October 2009

Now that the lawn mower is safely stored away for winter you still have a few mild weekends ahead to spend time preparing your vegetable boxes before it gets too cold to potter outside. Putting in the hours now will allow you to produce brilliant home grown vegetables in the months to come. Start by [...]

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How to prevent condensation in a metal shed

17 October 2009

  Metal sheds are a fantastic alternative to having a wooden shed. They enable you to overcome many of the maintenance problems that you often encounter with timber structures. However as we’re all aware metal sheds themselves can suffer from condensation problems. Read on to find out how to alleviate this problem. All metal garden [...]

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How long do pet rabbits live?

16 October 2009

The answer to this question depends on the breed;  smaller breeds of rabbit can live up to 12 years old, whereas larger rabbits may live only 5 years. Rabbits are clean, friendly intelligent creatures that can bring years of joy to any family.  With space, food, bedding and the right living accommodation rabbits are happy [...]

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How to set up a trampoline outside

15 October 2009

Trampolines are a fantastic fun addition to any garden that the whole family can enjoy. Your children will benefit from exercise and the fresh air of being outdoors. As well as the countless benefits having a trampoline brings, there is also a safety element that must be considered. As you may have seen in the [...]

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Glorious Garden decorations – Garden Arches

14 October 2009

When creating our perfect idea of what a garden should be, we tend to focus heavily on the soft green stuff like the plants and lawn and often overlook the hard structures in our gardens that provide us with the definition, the lines and the boundaries that provide structure to our gardens. Garden structures can [...]

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Buyers guide: Wooden or metal climbing frames

13 October 2009

Your children have been nagging you for a climbing frame for the past couple of months, you have gradually been putting a little by each month in order to treat the little darlings and now the time has finally arrived for you to start researching what type of climbing frame you want in your garden. [...]

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Wonderful Winter Window Boxes

12 October 2009

In summer your window boxes add an area of vibrant colours to the exterior of your house, however as winter draws closer and those flowers end for another season why not put your window boxes to some good use and grow winter salad to bring your veg patch to your own back door! Not only [...]

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Bridging the Gap – Adding that final touch to your garden

8 October 2009

A Garden bridge can be a beautiful focal point in any garden adding style and really finishing off your garden design. Whether used over a pond, rock garden or to join two parts of your garden together, a bridge is a wonderful finishing touch. The garden bridge is an ancient design structure that has been [...]

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Good Garden Hedge Maintenence – Become the world’s best hedge trimmer!

8 October 2009

Our hedges mark out the edge of our property, enabling us to enjoy privacy and security on our land – however big or small that may be! During the summer months these wonderful green walls grow wildly and lose their formation and so require trimming at least twice a year to keep them under control. [...]

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Rain Chains : A great alternative to guttering

7 October 2009

What is a Rain Chain? A rain chain is an alternative to a traditional metal or plastic gutter downpipe. Originally from Japan rain chains are used in many gardens across the UK as an extremely decorative water feature that transports rainwater or other water from the guttering to the ground, into a basin a rain [...]

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