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Guide To Composting
Composting is the most environmentally friendly way to deal with garden and kitchen waste and the resulting compost can be used to enrich soils and feed your garden. It’s a…
5 Tips To Keep Your Garden Healthy While You’re Away
If you’re about to head off on your holidays, there are a few things you can do to ensure that your garden stays in full health while you’re enjoying your…
Our Favourite Blackberry Recipes
Here at Greensleeves, we love blackberry season! Whether you harvest a crop from the bottom of your garden or love blackberrying in the lanes around where you live, you’ll be…
Worm Composting
Composting is the most environmentally friendly way that you can dispose of kitchen and garden waste. Greensleeves recently put together a guide to composting, but wanted to look in more…
Re-turf or Renovate Your Lawn?
Lawns can become damaged, get ruined or die for a huge number of reasons from chafer grub infestations to sun scorching. If this happens, there are a few ways that…
Guide To Spring Bulbs (That Need Planting Now!)
Spring might seem far away, but autumn is the perfect time to plant bulbs so they’ll bloom next year in beautiful colours! Read our blog to get some inspiration for…
How To Store Autumn Harvest Over Winter
Autumn is a big time of year for harvesting vegetables and fruits. There are few types that can be harvested in winter, so it’s great to be able to store…
Composting Leaves
For anyone with trees nearby, autumn sees our gardens covered in falling leaves. It is important that leaves are not left covering your lawn. When left to pile up, they…
Your Most Googled Lawn Problems of 2020 (So Far)
We analysed our own data to understand what our customers are searching for in 2020. We’ve looked at Google searches from January to May 2020 to create a list of…
Where is the Highest Demand for Gardens in the UK
Since the lockdown in March and the move towards remote working, UK residents have been making use of their property’s space more than ever. But how much more do we…
April is National Pet Month – What does that mean for your lawn?
People love pets. They’re some of the most excellent companions people can have and make living each day just a little bit better. Pet Day (which was on 11th April)…
The ultimate lawn: Real Vs Artificial
One of the key dilemmas we are increasingly hearing is whether to stick with a real grass lawn, or opt to lay an artificial one? Now of course we at…