If You’re Looking To Save Water – Use A Water Butt!

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With the British Summer’s being so unpredictable, one minute it’s hot and the next it’s raining, collecting rain water has probably never been so unpredictable but with a Water Butt – it’s easy!

 

Simply position the Water Butt in the ideal position and when it rains, let it do it’s work automatically without having to even think about it.

Here at Gardening Works we have a choice of Water Butts available, either a 100 litre, 210 litre or 250 litre version – the choice is yours!

 

 

 

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Slug Gone – Organic, Environmentally Friendly And A Great Feed Product!

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Slug Gone’s natural pure organic wool pellets are manufactured from the fleece of sheep. Wool fibres have very fine scales with small barbs on the tip called cuticle cells. These cause wool fibres to felt and matt together. Wool fibres are very hygroscopic and this plus the sand and grit already in the compound and the potassium salts from the sweat glands of the sheep absorb some of the slime from the slug’s foot to cause irritation, resulting in the slug finding easier feeding methods.

‘Slug Gone’ wool pellets are composed of 100% natural materials including phosphorous, nitrogen and potassium. As soon as water is added the fibres swell to form a barrier or insulation blanket. When slugs climb onto the fibres it irritates the foot and causes it to seek easier feeding elsewhere.

‘Slug Gone’ wool pellets are ideal for organic gardening and can be used in pots, flower beds, borders, allotments, herb gardens, nurseries, garden centres, green houses and vegetable plots.

To Use:

Clean the area around the plant and place the pellets to fill the surface of the pot, or in a 6” circle around the plant. Make sure all the pellets are touching.
Water well and soon the pellets will swell and bind together to form both a prtotective and insulating blanket.

Available in money saving 20 litre bags.

Gardening Works – In Harmony With Nature

How To Use Tomato Ring Pots – A Step by Step Guide

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Tomato stems may look like normal stems but when you pile soil up against them, they turn in to roots! This ability gives them double the pulling power to absorb water and nutrients which in turn lead to super strong plants and bumper yields.

The idea with tomato pot rings is that you are using two growing environments and ring culture is a great way of compensating for the limited resources of grow bags as they sit snugly into the holes that you cut in to the top and untimely give far better results than a grow bag on its own.

Simply plant your seedlings into compost at the bottom of the pots and as they grow add more compost around the stems until you reach the top. Make sure your watering is tailored to the substrate and feed the ring pot weekly with diluted tomato feed.

Wooden Dog Whelping Boxes Loved By Our Furry Friends!

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We’ve just received a lovely email from one of our very happy customers who ordered a modified version of one of our Dog Whelping Boxes, in fact Ann asked us to make her special Dog Boxes with feet. (We’ll always accommodate any requests we can).

“The dog beds surpassed my expectations. Thank you so very much for getting them done for me. So simple in design, yet exactly what I was looking for. Off the ground, with sides. One of our dogs pulled a leg muscle and it was so easy just to remove the front slats for a while so he could easily get in and out. Simple to keep clean. Although all our hounds love to chew the square ends, the wood doesn’t splinter and is sufficiently robust for no constructive damage to be done.

Quite simply…an excellent product. Thank you so very much. I shall be taking some pics (as soon as I can get the camera working) and will send them through to you and to my houndie friends too (with a very high recommendation!). ”

With kind regards  Ann O

Thanks Ann – we’re delighted to know that they’re exactly what you wanted and hope the inhabitants love them as much as we all do!

Pointed Picket Fences Perfect For Borders and Edging

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Picket fences are a type of fence often used decoratively for domestic boundaries, often distinguished by their evenly spaced vertical boards, the pickets, attached to horizontal rails.

Protection and demarcation on corners and borders of flower beds, lawn and open plan spaces.
Prevent people from cutting the corner on foot, prams, hose pipes, equipment et al.
Deter small animals from entering a space

Until the introduction of advertising on fences in the 1980s, cricket fields were usually surrounded by picket fences, giving rise to the expression rattling the pickets for a ball hit firmly into the fence.

Pointed Picket Fence

• Very useful for demarking borders and boundaries
• Protects the corners of beds an lawns
• Adds style to edges.
• Prevents machinery, hose pipes and people from cutting corners and spoiling them.
• Makes a clear demarcation between the paths and the beds.
• Deters small animals from entering the protected space.
• DIY so simple

No Nails, No Screws, No Holes to Dig, but a mallet will be useful for helping the posts into the ground.

Height of fence: 45cm
Height of pointed post above ground: 26cm

For full details simply view our new Border and Edging category.

Prices start at just £4.95

 

We Just Love The Henchman Double Patio Compost Tumbler

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We’re delighted to be able to offer you the Henchman Double Patio Composter. It really is a fabulous product! read on and we’ll tell you more about it……….

Make your own compost most of the year round.
Recycle up to 150 litres of kitchen and garden waste every 4-6 weeks.
Operate two chambers seperately for efficient batch composting.
Produce hundreds of litres of home-grown compost yearly.
Reduce paper, cardboard and kitchen throw outs.
Return garden ‘waste’ to the garden in the form of nutrient rich compost.
Rely on yourself for nutrient compost, not the local garden centre!

Easily tip out compost, or add new materials, thanks to the wide opening hatch.
Spin even a full drum easily.
Reduce the hard work of turning slow and heavy outdoor heaps.Keep vermin away

Look after your environment.
Rely less on bonfires.
Keep the garden looking clean and tidy.
Take a step further towards self sustainability.

Made from rugged UV stable recycled plastic.

Price Only: £115.00