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Top Trend: An Introduction to Hydroponics – 5 Hydroponic growing methods for bountiful harvests

Growing your own wholesome food needn’t require soil or compost. Hydroponics offers a solution to bountiful harvests in small spaces requiring no soil.
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Identifying orchids Watch here!

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For the LOVE of succulents

The month of love is sweetly scented with promises, chocolates, and the perfume of red roses.
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Promise in a pot: Herb pots for the window sill, or patio

Spring sweetness. When the days reach further into the evenings, spilling stars and the sunset’s streaks of gold and red across the same heavens.
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Promise in a Pot Series – Container gardening: The secrets to success

No garden? No problem! Do you dream of a beautiful, blooming garden, but you don't have space?
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How to grow herbs indoors Watch here!

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Bonsai Basics: How to repot your bonsai Watch here!

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Bonsai Basics: How to Prune Your Bonsai Watch here!

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Bonsai Basics: How to fertilise your bonsai Watch here!

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Bonsai Basics: How to care for your bonsai Watch here!

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Bonsai Basics: How to purchase your first bonsai Watch here!

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How to garden with herbs on a patio or balcony Read more here

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How to improve your soil

Learn how to improve your soil for planting! Perform a ‘sausage soil test’: Add a little water to your soil sample and mix Roll the soil into a sausage shape and bend Slight bend = loamy/sandy soil = ideal Forms a ring = clay soil = NOT ideal!
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How to re-pot a plant successfully! #potplants Read more here

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Success with foliar sprays

Foliar fertilisers can be used successfully on flowers, shrubs, vegetables, as well as on lawn.
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Soil savvy

We offer some ideas for helping your garden survive extremely dry spells. There are four key factors to making a water wise garden: plant choice, garden design and style, garden care (watering, feeding etc) and soil preparation.
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Rescue remedies for your garden

Despite the severe water shortages being experienced in the Southern and Eastern Cape, a garden keeps growing, and so gardening should continue.
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Repot your indoor plants

Winter is an excellent time to repot your favourite indoor plants that have become too small for their containers.
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Pruning to perfection

July is pruning time in the garden. Find out more about the pruning of roses, fruit trees and hydrangeas.
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Perfect rose pruning

Give your roses a pruning in July to promote better flowers and lush growth from October onwards.
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