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Grow your own salad it's easy
and you will save a great deal of money. In this video I worked out how much money I saved by growing my own salad and it was a SHOCKING...
Jill Bretherton
May 7, 20241 min read
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Sunflowers, sowing, growing & troubleshooting
Easy sunflowers for beginners. Everyone loves to grow sunflowers and they are especially loved by kids but they can be a little tricker...
Jill Bretherton
May 7, 20241 min read
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How to make your own organic garden fertilizer in 2 minutes
FREE, SAFE, ORGANIC, HOMEMADE Shop bought fertliser is full of potentially harmful chemicals not to mention it can cost a small fortune....
Jill Bretherton
May 7, 20242 min read
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Stop wasting money on plastic plant pots
and instantly reduce the use of plastics in your garden with this gardening hack Watch this video to find out how you can stop wasting...
Jill Bretherton
Apr 27, 20241 min read
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Top 10 gardening jobs I do in April
Gardening jobs in April you still have time to do now Click your country's flag below to buy direct from Amazon 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺
Jill Bretherton
Apr 27, 20241 min read
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Ranunculus update in April
and why I don't grow them in pots. If you want you can watch my video here, which pretty much comprehensively explains why I don't grow...
Jill Bretherton
Apr 27, 20241 min read
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How to Plant out delphiniums
Planting out delphiniums in my english cottage garden South East UK Zone 9 Despite planting my delphiniums out in strong wind (see the...
Jill Bretherton
Apr 10, 20241 min read
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April English Garden Tour, so much is changing.
All the flowers due to flower in my April English garden tour, zone 9 Kent cottage garden In the few days since I posted this April...
Jill Bretherton
Apr 10, 20241 min read
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DIY sweet pea wigwam on a budget
Makign magical obelisks for your climbing plants and garden DIY sweet pea wigwams covered in fairy lights If you just want to watch my...
Jill Bretherton
Mar 18, 20242 min read
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A simple & elegant daffodil arrangement
The daffodils are almost over so make the most of them while you can I loved this daffodil arrangement so much I actually painted it in...
Jill Bretherton
Mar 17, 20241 min read
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EASY Heated seed bed DIY
Perfect for propagating cuttings and seeds I am loving my heated seed bed that I made my self. It was a super easy and relatively cheap...
Jill Bretherton
Mar 17, 20242 min read
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March 1st tour of my cottage garden....
... and everything I'm growing in the greenhouse. You can watch the video of my March tour of the garden below. In it you can see...
Jill Bretherton
Mar 5, 20243 min read
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Cottage Garden Plans for 2024
what I am growing, DIY projects, landscaping & more I have so many plans for the garden which are best explained in the following video....
Jill Bretherton
Feb 22, 20241 min read
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How to grow lisianthus from seed UK
How I am growing lisianthus from seed & an update after 10 days I am a sucker for flower farming videos. I think there is an overlap...
Jill Bretherton
Feb 18, 20242 min read
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Starting my Ranunculus
How I started my ranunculus corms this year I was so behind on jobs after having a bout of flu followed by a heavy cold. I estimated...
Jill Bretherton
Feb 7, 20242 min read
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Store Cupboard Soup
Beat the cost of living crisis with this cheap but hearty & nutritious soup. Ingredients (these are approximations. Accurate quantities...
Jill Bretherton
Jan 19, 20242 min read
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Dividing perennial clumps to create new plants
Free plants y division in January. In this episode I divide Shasta Daisies. I'll just post the video here as I think it better...
Jill Bretherton
Jan 15, 20241 min read
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Winter Sowing (January) Saponaria Pink Beauty (vaccaria Hispanica
Beautiful sparkly airy branching flowers This is such a wonderful cottage garden flower but it also makes a first class filler flower....
Jill Bretherton
Jan 12, 20241 min read
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January sowing: Verbascum
My favourite cottage garden flower. One of my absolute favourite cottage garden plants is verbascum. It's a hardy short lived perennial....
Jill Bretherton
Jan 10, 20241 min read
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Sorry for the silence! I had the flu!
January jobs for the garden. Landscaping, hedgetrimming, hedgeplanting and catching up after being ill. I lost all of Christmas to the...
Jill Bretherton
Jan 8, 20241 min read
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