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  • Natria: New Product Range

    Natria: New Product Range

    Bayer Garden are launching a new range of Natural Garden Care products in time for the 2011 spring season.  The Natria range contain natural active ingredients which are at least as effective if not more so than their chemical equivalents. Finally, a leading manufacturer has put together a group of effective, natural products and labelled them as such. Continue reading →
  • How to Make the Best Compost

    How to Make the Best Compost

    To produce the best garden compost, each bag needs to contain a mix of nitrogen rich waste (such as grass cuttings) and courser carbon rich material (such as small twigs, cuttings, bark or even shredded newspaper). Most vegetable waste can be composted for your garden, but do not try to compost meat or cooked food as this may attract vermin. Continue reading →
  • Bulb Value Bags

    Bulb Value Bags

    We've added 3 new value bags to our bulb range this year.  If you're looking for more than just a small packet of bulbs, our value bags are great value for money. Tete a Tete Bulbs Our tete a tete value bags contain 35 bulbs.  These bulbs are graded between 10 and 11 so are a good sized bulb which will produce a welcome show next year. Continue reading →
  • Taylors Bulbs History

    Taylors Bulbs History

    It was in 1919 that the Government set up a number of smallholdings for returned servicemen of the First World War.  One of these Crown Colonies was at Holbeach in Lincolnshire.  Otto Augustus Taylor, as a result of being gassed in the war, was unable to return to his occupation in London.  He applied for one of these new holdings and was successful. Continue reading →
  • How To Breakup Clay Soil

    How To Breakup Clay Soil

    Anyone who suffers with clay soil knows how difficult it is to work with and how much harder it is for plants to flourish. Clay soils are more compact and contain more minerals which bind the soil together making it difficult for oxygen, water and nutrients to get to plant roots. The high levels of minerals in clay soils usually makes the soil's pH alkaline so acid loving plants like azaleas, Continue reading →
  • Mephedrone

    Mephedrone

    None of the products we sell including our full plant food range contains mephedrone or its derivatives. Despite mephedrone being marketed in the UK as a plant food, to the best of our knowledge, mephadrone is a chemical which is of no benefit as a plant food. Plant Me Now do sell a comprehensive range of plant foods that, when fed to plants, do benefit plants! Continue reading →
  • Plant Me Now Support BBC Breathing Places ‘Save Our Bees’ Campaign

    Plant Me Now Support BBC Breathing Places ‘Save Our Bees’ Campaign

    One of the UK's leading online garden centres is backing the BBC Breathing Places 'Save Our Bees' campaign by offering some fantastic deals on Wildflower Seeds. The BBC 'Save Our Bees' campaign has been launched as part of the broadcasters National Science Week and are giving away free packets of Wildflower Seeds in an effort to encourage bees back into UK gardens. Continue reading →
  • Garden Safety Tips from Plant Me Now

    Garden Safety Tips from Plant Me Now

    It's a well known fact that most accidents occur in and around the home and although your garden is an ideal place to unwind, it calls for the same level of attention as the inside of your home, if accidents are to be avoided. You only have to think about the garden tools that are used on a regular basis to carry out those essential gardening tasks to realise how accidents may happen. Continue reading →
  • Potato Pests and Diseases

    Potato Pests and Diseases

    There are many pests and diseases that can potentially harm your potato crop. Of these, only around four or five can cause serious harm, which include Potato Blight, Wireworm and slugs. By buying certified virus-free seeds from your garden centre you will be able to avoid some of the more manacing viruses. Continue reading →
  • Gardening: The Big Freeze

    Gardening: The Big Freeze

    If like many keen gardeners across the UK you have been braving the elements recently to ensure that your garden looks its best through the winter months then it will probably come as no surprise to you to hear that extremely cold and frosty weather can cause tremendous damage to your garden plants. Continue reading →

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