Winter may be over but that doesn’t mean that birds don’t need feeding. According to Bill Oddie, birds need energy for the breeding season, particularly given the increasing urbanisation of wild birds. He’s created a range of bird food recipes alon g with a website and Youtube channel to help answer common bird feeding questions. He … Continue reading
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Gardening competitions: Win a gardening holiday, luxury food and more
Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg magazine has got some fantastic competitions at the moment, with prizes including an irrigation system, a ladder allotment (pictured) and an English Heritage gardening holidayfor 2-8 people (complete with hamper of local produce). Robert Dyas is offering £200 garden furniture comprising table, chairs, parasol and cushions. You could also win a luxury meat hamper courtesy … Continue reading
Food and gardening competitions:win a lawnmower, gourmet break and more
Should you enjoy having a garden but are short on time, Love the Garden is offering the chance to win a gardener for a year along with three Chelsea Flower Show plants. If it’s skill rather than time you’re short on, Gardener’s World has got a one-day fruit and veg growing course, a set of gardening books and … Continue reading
Competition update: festival tickets, spotty boots and £15,000 up for grabs
It’s showtime! Or at least, it would appear that way from the amount of competitions currently springing up offering free tickets to gardening shows. This week you can win tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show with getintogardening.com, tickets to the Malvern Spring Show with Gardener’s World and tickets to both the Aztec Gardening Summer Show … Continue reading
Creative urban gardening and competitions
One of the joys of urban gardening is that it encourages creativity. PrettyJumbledThoughts has found some fab ideas for container gardening – I love the hydroponic wine-glass basil and the velocity planters that allow you to grow plants upside-down (available from urban-allotments.com in the UK) and the San Pellegrino cans repurposed as plant pots are a … Continue reading
