A great eco-friendly way to save you time and effort in your garden as well as making it look great is to apply mulch. This is usually completed in the autumn/winter period and is simply spreading a material such as composted bark over the surface of the soil. Mulching has many benefits including suppressing weed growth and reducing water loss. This saves you time and benefits plants. If you use a bio-degradable product such as manure, composted bark or mushroom compost, you

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Pruning roses is one of those jobs people tend to get into a panic about, but it's really quite simple as long as you follow the basic rules... Bush Roses and Hybrid T I tend to prune shrub roses from about January through to March, which is fine, as long as you don't prune if cold weather is expected. I start with removing the three Ds: that dead, diseased or dying wood, as well as removing crossing branches, which could be rubbing one another. Start by removing larger stems

Some great tips on how you can get the most out of your fruit tree by pruning it in your garden.