Top-tips for Healthy Gardens

The best thing you can do with your garden is to work with what you have. Endless hours can go into changing soil, changing drainage or getting something to grow that simply doesn’t want to. Even in a small place like Ireland, we have an endless diversity of climates and conditions – compare a boggy site in the Midlands with a seaside on the West coast. To garden successfully, the first step is to understand the predominant conditions which will ultimately determine what you can and cannot grow.

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Why to garden even if it's always raining

After a wet summer, you could be forgiven for thinking that it's hardly worth gardening. But even if it wasn't great for humans, it has been great for many plants. Trees and leafy plants love the wet, and if there is a niggling concern that climate change is going to have to change the way we garden, it's a very valid one. The big lesson that we all need to learn is that we need gardens and green spaces more than ever.