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Over the coming weeks and months, join me as I develop our brand new garden. As a trained horticulturalist and garden designer, I'll be guiding you through the seasons ahead, sharing tips, successes and failures and exploring some of the new and inventive products on the market.

This year is the first spring season here at the Spear and Jackson garden, and I'm looking forward to cultivating a wide range of plants, flowers, vegetables and even some fruit.

Its a small garden, with a modern courtyard around one side, family lawn area with raised borders around the other and to the front, a modern take on a traditional cottage border.

Have a great gardening week.

Lee 'The Gardener'

Cultivating tools Blog

How to plant bulbs

October 14, 2011 Posted by Jo in Cultivating Tools

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Choosing and planting bulbs which will flower next spring and summer seems like ages away, and we haven't even put the garden to sleep. But planted now, you'll ensure you get some great colour in the garden, at a time when you'll really appreciate it.

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'How to' Bulb Planters

June 14, 2011 Posted by Jo in Cultivating Tools

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The bulb planter is one of those tools that many of us have, but only use twice per year. Mainly in September/ October when planting spring flowering bulbs such as daffodils, tulips and alliums, or in may when planting summer bulbs such as gladioli. But have you ever used your bulb planter for planting bedding plants or small plants grown in 3 inch pots?

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Spear & Jackson 'How to' weeding and weeding tools

June 6, 2011 Posted by Jo in Cultivating Tools

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I’d never used a long handled hand fork before, and thought them a little odd. But it wasn’t until I actually tried this tool that I discovered how much I like it. It’s easier to reach further into the border, and as it has a long handle, you can get a better leverage, making forking over the area easier. I was able to get in-between other plants easily and weed out the nettles which seem to have arrived with the horse manure!

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Tool of the Week - Lightweight Dutch Hoe

May 6, 2011 Posted by Jo in Cultivating Tools

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Tool of the Week - Lightweight Soil Rake

April 11, 2011 Posted by Jo in Cultivating Tools

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This week I’m putting the new Litework soil rake to good use, by using it to level out the freshly dug borders. Many people use the soil rake for moving soil around the bed, but actually a rake is a levelling tool, and should be used to create an even surface normally for seed sowing, be that grass, flower or vegetable.

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