Grow your own
Harvest late summer crops
It’s late summer, but there’s still plenty to be done on the vegetable plot. Keep picking peas, beans and courgettes. And there’s still time to plant salads.
Pippa Greenwood
Pippaโs gardening passions include grow your own and the things gardeners hate most โ pests and diseases! She gives many gardening talks and worked for the RHS for years, spent 13 years as a presenter on BBC Gardenersโ World and since 1995 has been a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4โs Gardenersโ Question Time. She was also the gardening advisor for the murder-mystery series, Rosemary & Thyme. Vist Pippaโs website www.pippagreenwood.com for gorgeous vegetable plants with advice from Pippa, pest controls and more.
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Pests, weeds and diseases
Honey Fungus
Keep an eye out for the dreaded honey fungus. Pippa Greenwood shares her wisdom on identifying this most terrifying garden fungus.
Pests, weeds and diseases
Leatherjackets
Leatherjackets cause havoc in lawns, eating the roots of grass. Pippa Greenwood has some good tips for ridding your lawn of these pests.
Pests, weeds and diseases
Potato and tomato blight
Pippa Greenwood offers a timely reminder to be on the look out for the dreaded tomato and potato blight
Pests, weeds and diseases
Box blight
Pippa Greenwood offers some sage advice against the troublesome box blight.
Advice and Tips, Feature
Greenhouse Growing
Pippa Greenwood explains the wonders of having a greenhouse and shares some timely tips and advice
Lawns
Lawn moss
Lawn moss can quickly take over a lawn if the conditions for its growth are right, but what can you do to reduce its effect and stop it in its tracks?
Advice and Tips
Vegetable growing tips
Pippa Greenwood offers some timely advice on growing your own veg, including choosing the right site, varieties and successional sowing.
Pests, weeds and diseases
Chafer grubs
If your lawn is being dug up by badgers or attracting birds, you may have chafer grubs feeding on the roots. Find out how to get rid of these lawn pests.
Pests, weeds and diseases
Whitefly in the greenhouse
If youโre met by a cloud of tiny white flying insects when you go into your greenhouse, it’s probaby glasshouse whitefly. Act now to get rid of these pests.
Pests, weeds and diseases
Powdery mildew
Powdery mildews have got to be just about the most widespread fungal problem in gardens. There are many types but the name of powdery mildew is given to them all and the symptoms and treatments...
Pests, weeds and diseases
Ants in the garden
There are over 50 different ant species in the UK, most of them pretty well go unnoticed but there a few which can cause a fair bit of grief to gardeners.
Advice and Tips
Grow courgettes and squash
If you want amazingly speedy (and usually pretty easy) returns from your veg plot, make sure you grow some courgettes and a squash or two.
Pests, weeds and diseases
Vine weevil
Vine weevil alert: look out for the vine weevil this spring. Get to grips with the most hated garden pest with Pippa Greenwood’s advice.
Advice and Tips
Grow your own veg this year
Grow your own vegetables this year. Pippa Greenwood has some timely advice for growing potatoes, onions and sowing seed.
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