How to Garden - Gardening Tips & Advice for the Irish Garden

Beech Hedging Aftercare

Jul

9

2015

Once you have planted your beech hedging you need to keep in mind that there will be some maintenance during the first and second summer to ensure the best start and quick establishment of your hedge If planted right, 99% of your bareroot plants should grow and sprout new foliage by late April, after that ...

Rubber Garden Edging for Low Maintenance Gardening

Jun

18

2015

Low maintenance is always a hot topic in gardening and gardens. We all want a neat and pristine garden, we all want to be able to enjoy our garden – but we certainly don’t want to become a slave to the gardening, and rightly so! So, here at How to Garden we have some tips ...

Plant Pots & Trays in Gardens

Jun

18

2015

Using Trays when growing plants in pots is essential and the benefits to both you and your plants and endless. Garden trays are wonderful for plants as they make it so much easier to grow and care for your plants and create the ideal conditions for growing plants from plant pots Below are a list ...

Potting My Summer Flowering Bulbs

Jun

18

2015

When you find that you have too many flower bulbs and not enough space in the garden for them all then you should consider potting them up in plant pots or containers. This will ensure that your bulbs can grow and flower this year and will prevent your Flower bulbs from rotting The best ...

Decorative Stone At Bloom 2015

Jun

16

2015

If your looking for ways to use decorative stone in your garden this year then there is no where better to look for ideas than our very own Bloom. Held in Phoneix Park each May, the Bloom festival offers a huge range of garden ideas throughout its selection of show gardens. With that there is ...

Christmas Tree Growing Update

Jun

16

2015

We are surely late this year but in the last week our team of dedicated volunteers were back in the fields and tending to our crop of Christmas trees. It is year three now of our crop and so we are a full 4 years away from the first harvest and our first opportunity to ...

Garden Furniture

Jun

10

2015

The sun is here! High pressure hangs over Ireland and were hanging on to it for dear life! If we can just get one weekend of summer we can all rest easy. Of Course, we can only rest easy if we have comfortable garden furniture on which to rest! So you say, what options are ...

Working With Decorative Stone

Jun

10

2015

The opportunities are endless when you design with decorative stone! Every garden will have some amount of stone as stone is an essential building block and is one of our more basic and reliable elements. With decorative stone you can create and build any number of unique features or seating areas. When using decorative stone ...

Wolf Multi Change Garden Tools

Jun

8

2015

People say ‘they don’t make garden tools like they used to’. Well, that is true, but with the wolf range of multi change tools that is true, because now they make even better tools than they used to. The wolf tools are a range of sturdy, practical and reliable tools for gardeners to use throughout ...

Water Storage Tank

May

21

2015

There is no question about it – the issue of water costs is not going to go away and maybe the best way to fight the water charges is to come up with ways in which we can store of own water and save on any water charges or bills There are many ways ...