Managing Plant Problems (photo by Rosana Brien / My Garden Plot)
How To Manage Garden Pests And Diseases
How to manage garden pests and diseases and prevent trouble before it starts. Tips for how to remove the risk of problems in the garden.
Reviving and landscape maintenance includes various garden projects reshaping plants and pruning trees. Transforming neglected vegetable raised beds, improving soil and weed control.
Winter Garden With Snow Covered Beautyberry (photo by Trevor Brien / My Garden Plot)
Winter Gardens
Winter gardens, a time for reflection. Here are garden ideas with winter shrubs and evergreens. And list of things to do; pruning and maintenance.
Lawn Care (photo by Rosana Brien / My Garden Plot)
Lawn Care Guide
Great guide how to take care of your lawn. Includes seasonal maintenance tips, plus watering, mowing, aerating, seedling, lime, fertilizing, weeding...
Beautiful Fall Colours From Nature (photo by Trevor Brien / My Garden Plot)
Fall Gardens
Fall gardens are full of colour. Here we offer plant recommendations for autumn and gardening jobs to be completed before winter.
Summer Garden Border With Cosmos And Rudbeckia (photo by Rosana Brien / My Garden Plot)
Summer Gardens
Gardening in the summer season and the enjoyment of summer flowers, nature and the garden. Recommendations of plants and gardening ideas.
Learn How To Smother Weeds in Garden Beds (photo by My Garden Plot)
Paper and Cardboard Mulch for Weed Control
Learn about organic weed control methods using paper and cardboard. And what is best for your garden bed, pathway or vegetable plot for weed control.
Tulips And Spring Gardens (photo by Rosana Brien / My Garden Plot)
Spring Gardens
With the certainty of spring brings a fresh start to garden care. Here are our plant and flower recommendations and a guide of tasks to do.
Our owl looking over the new raised vegetable beds (photo by My Garden Plot)
How To Prepare Garden Beds For Planting Vegetables
Steps how to prepare garden beds for planting herbs and vegetables. And tips for restoring the soil health after solarization for several months.
Applying dormant oil spray to the peach tree (photos by My Garden Plot)
Using Dormant Spray on Peach Trees
Information on when and how to apply dormant oil (horticultural oil and lime sulphur) sprays on trees and shrubs to kill overwintering pests and diseases.
Rhododendron 'Christmas Cheer' flowering in winter (photo by My Garden Plot)
Mild Winter followed by a Cold Snap
Rhododendron blooming during a mild winter followed by a cold snap. Beautiful flowers with a dusting of snow and renewed hope for spring.
Large flowers of the tree peony on a sunny spring day (photo by My Garden Plot)
Pruning Our Tree Peony
Winter pruning and reshaping a mature large tree peony for next flowering season. Cutting back deadwood, adding support and encouraging vase shape.
Black Plastic Sheets to Kill Weeds (photo by My Garden Plot)
Controlling Weeds By Solarizing
Soil solarization is an effective chemical-free weeding control solution for gardens. Learn how to use black plastic sheets for weed removal.