Courgettes: A Month By Month Growing Guide

We like to grow courgettes in our Vital Earth grow bags and each year we end up with so many wonderful vegetables, we thought you might find this month by month growing guide useful. May is the month to start sowing your seeds so what are you waiting for? May: Sow your seeds at the [...]

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How To Plant Up A Grow Bag

If your greenhouse has a paved floor, or if you’re planning on growing outdoors on your patio, then grow bags are a must.  Grow Bags are so simple to use, simply plump it up like a pillow, cut crosses in the top and fold back the plastic to make squares that you can plant in [...]

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Must Do Gardening Jobs For October

It’s the first day of October and during this month, there a a number of jobs in the garden that you should put on your list. Here are just a few that we here at The Recycle Works will be getting on with ourselves….. Set up a Leaf Mould Compost Bin for collecting fallen leaves [...]

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Read What Our Customers Think of Our Raised Beds!

We had some recent feedback from a customer about our FSC wooden raised beds… read on to find out how they found them to use.  To view the full range click here.   ….We thought we would share with you some photographs – we purchased several of your Standard Raised Beds recently and they look really great in our garden! [...]

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Storing the Harvest for Winter

Gathering in the harvest for winter is a special time, and with a little bit of know-how it is possible to keep the harvest in tip-top condition for eating later on. Root crops such as parsnips and beetroot can be left in the ground quite successfully for harvesting later in the winter.  However it’s worth [...]

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Competition – Win A Six Pack Vegetable Raised Bed

Over the moon about gardening! August saw one of the entries to Sylvia’s Briefs August competition from The Recycle Works win a free 6 pack Vegetable Box/Flowers Raised Bed. To win there have to be at least 50 entries in the month and it goes to our favourite best picture of your vegetable plot gardening. This [...]

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Raised Beds For Winter Vegetables

Last weekend I planted my winter vegetables. Quite exciting and really puts the truth into the GYO 5 a day for the whole year round. Raised Beds are brilliant as they work in the gardener’s favour every time.  Soil is usually stone free and always well drained and loose. The compost does not get compacted [...]

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New Product – 4 Section Herb Pot

Now that more light is coming through our kitchen windows each day a neat purchase is our new 22cm Herb Pot with 4 removable pots and 4 types of herb seed. This handy pot boasts a great little reservoir so busy people will not need to worry if watering is forgotten for a few days [...]

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Germinating & Growing – Potato Growing Kits

At The Recycle Works, our suppliers of GYO seeds, potatoes and onions are a local company who have been receiving the RHS highest accolades for their produce for generations since Great Grandpa started the business in 1860. 1st Earlies: Currently In Stock with shorter maturity and harvesting times. 1.     Arran Pilot – Firm, waxy texture [...]

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Gardening With Children? – Ask An Expert!

Alison, who is the gardening volunteer parent for a school in Dorset, got in touch this week with Linda (our gardening expert) via www.gardeningwithchildren.co.uk to ask advice on what to plant in their small plot for Autumn term. Well you don’t have to be a school to benefit from Linda’s good advice. Linda suggested some really good [...]

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