Stephanie's Garden Blog

Have you been watching Alan Titchmarsh's latest offering on BBC TV - 'The Nature of Britain'?

A quick rummage around a typical gardener's shed will uncover various forms of derris, the well-known organic insecticide - but all that is set to change next year with the proposed outlawing of the product. Martin Fiddes explains more...

Potato growers across the country – both amateur and those whose livelihoods depend on a good harvest – are still coming to terms with a disastrous 2007 season, where summer floods and widespread blight combined to decimate crops, explains horticulturist Martin Fiddes.

We've mentioned before just how many gardeners rate slugs as their biggest garden enemy - and now is the time to start your defence in earnest.

A great many gardeners and allotment holders grow cabbages or other members of the brassica family each year, so will no doubt be familiar with a common garden pest – the mealy cabbage aphid.

Wireworms, and their potential to devastate potato crops and many other garden vegetables and plants, were in the forefront of one of our customer's minds recently - and here's the advice our horticulturist Martin Fiddes gave him...

National Nest Box Week February 14th is intrinsically linked to love and romance, and here is a bit of a different slant on Valentines Day this year, show some love to your garden birds!

The fluctuating winter weather is proving havoc with the country’s insect population – and ladybirds in particular are feeling the cold, according to the UK Phenology Network.

This remarkably named moth (plodia interpunctella), which measures 10mm long, lurks in the larder. The adult moths are are grey/white colour at the front and the lower half is a rusty brown; the moths like to fly at night and lay eggs on grain and dried food.