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Gardening Club Archive: May 2020

Gardening hints and tips - from our garden to yours.

A record of the videos made by our horticulture and learning teams, while the Garden was closed, to show what they are doing in their own gardens at home and to give you some tips and advice on what you can do in yours.

Week 9: 22 May - wildlife garden notes

Here are some short notes on what you can do this weekend to look after wildlife in your garden. Have a lovely weekend 🙂

Week 8: 15 May - garden notes

As we’re busy preparing for Festival of Plants (more information to come soon), Sandie has prepared a list of ‘to do’ notes for this weekend’s vegetable gardening. Have fun!

 

Week 7 : 8 May - how to grow micro herbs

If you don’t have a garden but want to grow some crops, fear not! This week no soil or compost is required, as Sandie shows us how to grow nutritious micro herbs inside…

How to grow micro herbs download(opens in new window)

Week 6 : 1 May - how to attract moths, butterflies and bats into your garden

This week, Gardening Club is looking at ways of attracting moths, butterflies and bats into our back gardens with CUBG’s wildlife expert, Chantal Helm…

If you’d like to ask Sandie any vegetable gardening questions, please ask them via twitter, facebook or our YouTube channel and she’ll do her best to answer them next week.

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