Grow Your Own

How to Grow Your Own Blueberries - The Easily Grown Super Food

In this handy growing guide, Robert Hall gives a step-by-step tutorial on how to look after and grow your own blueberry plants at home in the UK.

Grow Your Own
Fruit

Written by Robert Hall.
Published on Friday, 7th of July, 2023.
Updated on Thursday, 10th of August, 2023.

What To Do In The Garden in June

At this time of the year you'll find a fabulous selection of summer bedding at our Garden Centre in Birmingham. Plant the bedding out in borders and containers this month to achieve a wonderful display of colour and here are some other jobs to do in the garden during June.

Jobs
June
Lawn Care

Written by David Coton.
Published on Sunday, 27th of May, 2018.
Updated on Thursday, 1st of June, 2023.

The Benefits Of Growing Your Own Veg

Robert Hartill explores the many benefits of growing your own vegetables when compared to buying them from a supermarket or grocery store.

Vegetables
Sustainability
Sustainable Gardening

Written by David Coton.
Published on Monday, 27th of February, 2023.
Updated on Thursday, 7th of March, 2024.

What To Do In The Garden In October

It's autumn and David Coton is getting the garden prepared for the onset of colder weather but, at the same time, the arrival of spring bulbs in the garden centre is a reminder that we should also now be planning ahead for next year.

October
Lawn Care
Hanging Baskets

Written by David Coton.
Published on Monday, 2nd of October, 2017.
Updated on Friday, 13th of September, 2024.

GardenSite Partners with Green-Tech Company Harvst

GardenSite has recently partnered with green-tech greenhouse creator Harvst, extending our range of grow your own, smart mini greenhouses.

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Written by David Coton.
Published on Tuesday, 14th of June, 2022.

GardenSite Partners With Grow Your Own Brand Vegepod

GardenSite welcomed VegePod's sales representative Lee Jenkinson to their display site in Sutton Coldfield, in light of our recent partnership.

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Planters

Written by David Coton.
Published on Thursday, 24th of March, 2022.

GardenSite Donates Prize To Grow Your Own Picnic

As part of a project designed to sow ideas, grow inspiration and cultivate futures, 300 London schools are growing their own picnic this summer and their reward could be a £500 voucher from GardenSite.

Competition
Schools
Grow Your Own Picnic

Written by David Coton.
Published on Friday, 25th of May, 2018.
Updated on Friday, 24th of May, 2019.

VegTrug - The Easy Way To Grow Your Own Vegetables

At GLEE this year David Coton visited the VegTrug stand to find out how their specially designed space saving planters can encourage us to grow more of our own food without the use of pesticides.

Vegetables
Organic Gardening
Planters

Written by David Coton.
Published on Thursday, 14th of September, 2017.

Prunus incisa Kojo no-mai - The Miniature Fuji Cherry

Call it whatever you wish, Robert Hall says that the Miniature Fuji Cherry or Prunus incisa Kojo no-mai, is a superb flowering miniature cherry tree.

Garden Design
Organic Gardening
Grow Your Own

Written by Robert Hall.
Published on Friday, 28th of August, 2015.
Updated on Thursday, 16th of March, 2023.

Amazon Report Reveals Popularity Of Indoor Gardening

A summer sales report from internet retailer Amazon has revealed some interesting gardening trends and David Coton has discovered that we are becoming a nation of indoor gardeners.

Vegetables
Seeds
Organic Gardening

Written by David Coton.
Published on Friday, 28th of August, 2015.

Container Gardening

If you have a small garden, courtyard, or no garden at all, container growing might be the perfect way to fill your outside space with some of your favourite plants. David Coton considers timber and stone containers and how best to use them.

Stone Ornaments
Garden Ornaments
Patio

Written by David Coton.
Published on Monday, 11th of May, 2015.
Updated on Tuesday, 7th of March, 2023.

Great British Growing Awards

'Grow Your Own' magazine, the UK's best selling kitchen garden magazine, has just announced its Great British Growing Awards, and Nathan James Dodd has been looking through the winners.

Greenhouses
Organic Gardening
Seeds

Written by David Coton.
Published on Friday, 6th of March, 2015.