Bare Root Perennials
Toby's step-by-step guide to planting herbaceous perennials from bare-roots (without pots or compost) when dormant.
Roses from Bare Root
Toby explains how to plant roses bare-root, the traditional way (without pots or compost) when dormant in winter.
Get Busy for
Bees
With bee populations under threat, there has never better time to use your garden as a source of pollen and nectar. Here's what to plant.
Giant Pumpkins
Toby's guide to supersizing your pumpkin - from sowing the right seed in spring, feeding, pruning and planting to the weigh-in.
Which Grapevine?
Not all grapeveines are leafy monsters with scant crops. Modern breeding means now there are seedless grapes which are suited to the Uk climate with better crops too.
Toby's Top Toms
Want to know the difference between a cordon and a bush, and which toms to grow in a greenhouse or outdoors? Toby tells all and recommends some of his favourite varieties.
Toby's DIY Slug Killer
It's not for the squeamish! Read on to discover how Toby brews his own natural slug-killer from nematodes.
Pruning Apple Trees
Rejuvenate your apple tree or simply give it the once over to improve your harvest and to make sure your tree is hale and hearty.
Build a 'Geoff' cloche
Toby demonstrates an easy-to-build modern take on Geoff Hamilton's classic cloche made for next-to-nothing.
Off With Their Heads
Deadheading is a sure way to keep perennials flowering for longer but which are better left for seedheads and which are razed to the crown?
Gorgeous
Grasses
If you have lots of space to fill, one way is to to propagate a prairie-style border the economical way - by taking divisions.
Spires and
Spikes
Want a garden full of dreaming spires this summer? Here's Toby's guide to his favourite sky-scrapers and vertical flowers.
Natural Ways to Stake
Floppy plants look messy and spoil the flowers. A nice, natural way to stake is with peasticks and hazel sourced from coppice woods...
Foxgloves from Seed
Sow foxgloves in early summer, and they will be up and ready to move to their flowering position by the autumn.
Timber!
Which wood burns the hottest and longest? Where's the best place to source named types of firewood? Find out, along with Toby's tips for chopping wood.
