What’s your favorite herb? Can you name twenty? Here’s an exciting way to grow lots of herbs in a small space! I bought this cheap hanging shoe storage rack trom Argos for about £8. Hanging shoe storage racks are brillant for growing plants in if you don’t have much growing space. You can grow 20 different herb plants in this shoe storage unit. (If you can think of 20 different herbs) The hanging shoe storage racks are designed to be hung on the back of a door. They come supplied with the hooks
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What’s your favorite herb? Can you name twenty? Here’s an exciting way to grow lots of herbs in a small space! I bought this cheap hanging shoe storage rack trom Argos for about £8. Hanging shoe storage racks are brillant for growing plants in if you don’t have much growing space. You can grow 20 different herb plants in this shoe storage unit. (If you can think of 20 different herbs) The hanging shoe storage racks are designed to be hung on the back of a door. They come supplied with the hooks
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Sorry about the mud on my forehead in the opening shot. I’d been working hard digging a hole under the beautiful Devon sun, sweating, wiping my brow and hadn’t realised I’d smeared mud all over my face ! Hugelkultur or ‘mound / hill culture’ is a sustainable and ingenious gardening techinque, used by Northern Europeans for centuries. | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Sorry about the mud on my forehead in the opening shot. I’d been working hard digging a hole under the beautiful Devon sun, sweating, wiping my brow and hadn’t realised I’d smeared mud all over my face ! Hugelkultur or ‘mound / hill culture’ is a sustainable and ingenious gardening techinque, used by Northern Europeans for centuries. | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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This is the Akeroyd method of weaving a hanging basket. There are far more professional withie (willow) weavers out there who will do a far better job. But my method works for me, and it will work for you too! You just need a bit of patience to weave those withies! 😊💙 | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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This is the Akeroyd method of weaving a hanging basket. There are far more professional withie (willow) weavers out there who will do a far better job. But my method works for me, and it will work for you too! You just need a bit of patience to weave those withies! 😊💙 | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Repurpose a broken garden fork handle into a dibber. I use mine to plant leeks and garlic gloves. It’s amazing what you can recycle and use in the garden | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Repurpose a broken garden fork handle into a dibber. I use mine to plant leeks and garlic gloves. It’s amazing what you can recycle and use in the garden | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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No garden required. Want something quick, easy and delicious to grow at home that only takes about a week? Bean sprouts are so easy to grow at home. You can grow them all year round. I grew my bean sprouts from mung beans, but if you can’t easily get hold of these you can use chick peas instead. | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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No garden required. Want something quick, easy and delicious to grow at home that only takes about a week? Bean sprouts are so easy to grow at home. You can grow them all year round. I grew my bean sprouts from mung beans, but if you can’t easily get hold of these you can use chick peas instead. | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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My favourite method of reducing slug damage in your garden. I have signed copies of a few of my gardening books on my website. Thanks for watching, Best wishes, Simon | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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My favourite method of reducing slug damage in your garden. I have signed copies of a few of my gardening books on my website. Thanks for watching, Best wishes, Simon | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Simon Akeroyd’s Gardening Academy! Fancy leaning the basics of gardening this year? Perhaps discover if gardening is for you! (I’m sure it will be). I’m delighted to say I’m starting my beginner, one day ‘Gardening Experience Day’ sessions on the beautiful English Riviera this year. In the stunning setting of Torre Abbey garden in Torquay, Devon. We’re right by the sea. The good news is that the day includes a gardener’s finger-buffet, cold lunch and a signed copy of one of my gardening books. T
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No garden required! Grow your own healthy bean sprouts in just a few days on your windowsill. You can use either lentils or chickpeas! This is so easy. Grow beans sprouts in a jar to add to stir fries, salads or just eat directly. Bean sprouts are traditionally grown from mung beans or soybeans but most legumes (pea and bean family including pulses). The easiest ones to find in the shops are lentils and chick peas. | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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How to stay warm in the garden. You don’t need expensive hot water bottles or the expense of boiling kettles! In fact, if you’re down on the allotment, boiling a kettle isn’t even an option. Weeing into a recycled bottle is a free, natural and environmentally sustainable method of keeping warm when gardening outside. Your wee will stay warm for an hour or so. Just dont forget to tighten the lid! The good news is that you will have an almost inexhaustible supply of this free heating every day whe
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Happy Christmas 2024. Thank you to everyone who bought my gardening books this year. It’s been a good year for sales of my books. Perhaps next year I will be able to afford a bottle of Champagne instead of Prosecco to make my ‘Christmas tree in a snow storm’ tipple 🤣…or maybe not! | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Carrot seeds are tiny, so mix with sand to help distribute them better. In this video I used ash from a log fire which is also okay to use, but don’t use too much ash as it can cause a rise in pH (make it alkaline) but a moderate amount is fine. Thanks for watching Simon | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Apparently, us Brits send more Christmas cards than any other nation. You can recycle your envelopes, cards and other paper by making them into Christmas gift tags. Simply tear them up, add water and blend them into a pulp. Then stir in some seeds. I used poppy seeds. Roll the pulp out and leave to dry. Once dry you can cut them up into Christmas gift tags, thread through string and attach to Christmas presents. After Christmas simply plant the Christmas gift tags in the soil and they will hopef
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Planting and plotting. This is where I learnt all about poisonous plants. A few years ago I worked as Head Gardener at Agatha Christie’s Greenway, near beautiful Brixham in South Devon. It’s probably my favourite National Trust garden. A magical setting - a woodland garden overlooking the mighty River Dart. There’s walled gardens, peach houses, ferneries, rare plants, and indeed a few poisonous ones too. If you’ve never been before, I thoroughly recommend a visit to Greenway, where you can learn
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It’s not too late to plant potatoes. They are so easy to grow. I grew mine in a space-saving homemade potato tower, made from four sticks pushed in the ground and just wrapped chicken wire around them. Growing potatoes vertically is a great way to save space. | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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What to do with your old gardening gloves if they are full of holes. Create a vertical herb garden by filling the gloves with compost and planting them with herbs. Peg them onto lengths of string attached vertically along a wall or fence. I’ve hung mine just outside my kitchen door. And technically, a strawberry isn’t a herb, but its trailing habit makes a nice feature when planted in a glove hanging from the wall. | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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#GrowYourGroceries How to grow healthy ginger from the Supermarket. | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Spring onions from the supermarket are one of the easiest grocery crops to grow. It’s so easy. They will even keep regrowing after harvesting each time. Spring onion Infinity glitch! I made this video last year… but just in case you haven’t seen it, here it is 😊💙 #growyourgroceries #growyourownfood #growyourown | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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I’m sure many of you have grown larger pumpkins than this? But it is deceptively heavy. I strained my back recently, and had an eye operation so I need to be careful when lifting! If only I was twenty years younger! | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Grow strawberries in a rustic wooden fruit crate. You can usually get these boxes for free from your local grocery store. Happy gardening, best wishes, Simon | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Just to be clear, these boots are no longer made for walking! 🤪They are made for admiring in the garden ! Instead of throwing away your old welly boots, you can make them into planters. They make a lovely feature by the front door. I planted mine with succulents including echeverias, sempervivums (house leeks) and an aloe vera in the top. The advantage of using succulents is that they don’t need much watering | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Free plants. How to take hydrangea cuttings. Summer is a great time to do this. Keep cuttings moist and out of direct sunlight. Hydrangeas prefer slightly moist conditions. Their name is derived from hydra… water. The pH of the soil can change the colour of your flowers. Blue is in acidic soil and pink or red is in alkaline. I live by the sea in south devon where we have lots of limestone in the soil. Hence the pink flowers. | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Grow your groceries - Melon micro greens My latest book Grow Your Groceries (published by DK) features 40 of my favourite supermarket growing hacks. It’s a Sunday Times and Irish Times bestseller. The link is on my bio on my profile page if you would like to buy a copy of Grow Your Groceries. Thanks so much for your support, Best wishes Simon | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Winning at life. There is no need to dig over your vegetable beds and flower borders. Instead just cover the beds with cardboard and compost this autumn / winter and let the worms enjoy doing the digging for you #nodig #gardeningforbeginners #growyourgroceries #vegetablegardeningforbeginners | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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Humans need trees! Trees don’t need Humans. There are so many things we can learn from trees. Trees have been around for so much longer than humans. Trees are strong, silent and tolerant of others. No matter how different others are to them. Trees adapt to their environment and are in tune with the rhythms of nature. That’s why trees will out survive humans on this planet. Humans can learn so much from trees and their behaviour. If you don’t have room to grow a tree then try getting outside and
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Infinity glitch of sweet peas. An almost endless supply of sweet pea plants. Once sweet pea plants have three sets of leaves they should be pinched back to just above the first set of leaves. This produces a healthier, bushier sweet pea, instead of it going leggy. Place these sweet pea tops in water. They will produce roots after about three weeks and became additional sweet pea plants for you. You could then pinch the tips out of these new sweet pea plants and repeat the process. Thus rewarding
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One from the vaults! March 2023 to be precise. But I like to think I haven’t aged haha. And I’ve still got my fav blue fleece. It was old even then! How to grow strawberries in recycled fruit crates or wooden crates. If you ask at your local grocery store they will often give these away for free. They make a lovely rustic feature in the garden and often last for more than one season. Happy gardening | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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I’m not sure there is such a thing as a lazy gardener…we all love being outdoors and active right? Maybe? However, we do often need to take a break when out in the garden. If you have no seats in the garden, this is how you can improvise using your long handled garden tools and a tarpaulin 💙😊. Just make sure you tie your knots tightly so that you don’t fall flat on your face 🙃 Enjoy your well deserved gardening break | Simon Akeroyd Garden Writer
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I’ve got an old chiminea which I haven’t used since the 1990s. Chimineas were an iconic garden feature in the 1990s and usually made from terracotta or cast iron. In the good old days we would light them with logs and use them to cook our food al-fresco over a fire, or as natural patio heaters. Much nicer than using a nasty gas heater. I’ve recycled my chiminea by making it into a planter. I’ve planted ferns in mine to give it a slightly gothic theme for Halloween. Recycling old pipes and chimne
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Gardening by the moon. Or lunar gardening. It’s not just the tide that is affected by the gravitational pull of the moon. The gravitational pull of the moon affects water pressures and therefore affects plants which are mainly made up of water, and the moisture in the soil. The light from the different phases of the moon also affects the growth of plants. It’s also no secret that human behaviour is affected by monthly moon cycles. Hence why all these mythical legends and stories exist about huma
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