Your Gardening Tips, Advice and Experience are needed!

We are interested in your gardening experiences, advice and tips, whether it be about growing your favorite plants; or you would like to share your experiences, reviews and opinions about gardening accessories, tools and equipment. The latter is a broad category and includes your thoughts on garden buildings such as sheds and greenhouses, as well as on smaller items such as patio planters, garden statuary and even bird feeders!

We invite you to send this to us so that we can publish it on this site. In this way you can pass on your valuable experiences to help other visitors.

Examples of the kind of thing we want

We are looking for the following kinds of material for our visitors, but this is a guide only and we are open to more:

• Explanations of how you tried out new techniques and what the results were.
• Your best tips and advice on growing your favorite plants or flowers.
• Your experiences in using a new piece of garden equipment and whether you would recommend it or not.
• Your experiences in building or making something in the garden - pitfalls others should look out for, helpful advice and so on.
• What you have managed to achieve in your own garden through using containers - or trellis - or paving - or fencing - or... you get the idea ;-)
• Articles about growing, or using garden accessories, equipment, etc.

Examples of what we do not want

Here are some examples of submissions that would not suit the needs of our visitors and so would not get published here:

• Single sentence tips (if you have a tip to offer, try to explain it more thoroughly, giving examples of how you have used it, variations on it that have worked, etc.)
• Contributions that strongly point out the negative aspects of something in a very biased way (try instead to provide a more balanced view of your subject matter; if you make criticisms let them be constructive and have some purpose, not simply attacking something for the sake of it).
• Anything that is not about gardening or garden accessories.

Here's how to add your experiences, advice and tips to this site

It is better to write down your thoughts and ideas in a program such as Notepad first. Read it through, add to what you have written, read it through again looking for mistakes, add more material. Run it through a spell checker! Once it is ready, go to our easy to use online form here to submit your material. We are looking for material from both amateur and professional contributors, as we believe everyone has something useful to say about gardening and should have a place to say it.

Here's the link again for the page to submit your material to: Submit here.

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Tool Tip:

When thinking about garden tools for a new garden, always go with quality. The few extra pounds you pay will turn into years of extra service down the line and so pay for themselves many times over. It's false economy to buy cheap then have to buy cheap again a year or two later when the tools break.

Once you have good quality tools you need to look after them, then they will certainly serve you well for years to come. Clean the mud off spades and digging tools after each use. You can do this with a simply made wooden scraper, or even an old children's play spade or beach spade is often ideal if small -- perhaps even small enough to drop into a pouchy pocket of your old gardening coat.

With pruning tools such as secateurs or loppers it's a good idea to clean them with a sterilizing fluid of some kind after use - not so much to protect the tool as to protect your trees and shrubs. This is because plant diseases can be spread from one tree to another through these cutting tools.

Before putting them away for the winter clean and dry them thoroughly. Wiping over with a lightly oiled rag is also a good idea to prevent rust. Store tools out of the reach of children, they can be dangerous in young hands.