Geoff Hodge

Walking your garden for five to 10 minutes on a regular basis means you can stop pests like aphids and slugs getting out of control and becoming a problem.

Compost. Now that’s a great gardening term. And yet, although the word itself is simple, it can cause a fair deal of confusion. Geoff Hodge unravels the mystery.

Geoff Hodge explains about lawn moss and the best ways to deal with moss in your lawn.

Geoff Hodge offers his refreshing, down to earth gardening advice and busts a few age-old gardening myths.

Although the garden is slowly beginning to take its winter rest – before bursting into growth again next spring – it doesn’t mean it’s rest time for you, says Geoff Hodge

Geoff Hodge trials some of Richard Jackson’s Bird Food products in his own garden, this is what happened.

If you share your garden with children, pets and wildlife it’s important to choose products that are safe to use around them.

For fabulous beds and borders, choose RHS AGM award winning grasses to grow in your garden.

Geoff Hodge takes you through his calendar of lawn care hints, tips and advice for a lawn you can be proud of.

With the ever-increasing interest in growing your own veg at home these days, lots of people are turning over parts of their gardens to veg patches.

Growing your own fruit at home is the best way to get the tastiest and freshest fruit available. Geoff Hodge shares some advice on what to consider when growing fruit for one.

If you want to get ahead for spring, Geoff Hodge has lots of tips and advice.

You don’t have to have a big family to feed, to grow your own food, Geoff Hodge explains how to grow your own for one.

Grow yourself fitter with our Couch to Five a Day Challenge.

Some of the most popular summer plants for hanging baskets, pots and containers are fuchsias.

Add some exotic colour to your pots and planters this season with a fabulous agapanthus plant.

This summer our Gardening Club members helped trial some of next year’s new plants. Geoff Hodge reports

Geoff Hodge picks his five favourite new products from the myriad on display at the 2018 Garden Press Event held at The Business Design Centre in London.

One plant that has become incredibly popular in recent years – now our best selling flowering houseplant – is the moth orchid, Phalaenopsis.

This year, 140 Richard Jackson’s Garden Club members have been growing some 15 experimental and trial plants. Here are the results.

If you are a new gardener, or simply baffled by weird and wonderful gardening words, Geoff Hodge has simplified a few seasonal terms for you.