Gardening techniques : all the skills you need for a successful garden

Do you want to enjoy your garden but feel that you lack knowledge of basic, but essential, techniques that will help your plants to grow better and last longer?Starting from the bottom up - with your soil - this comprehensive guide gives you all the basic know-how that you need.

Find out how to identify the soil type, improve it and dig it.

Discover how to choose the right design for your space and select the plants that will grow best in your soil and part of the country.

Learn too, how to maintain your lawn and how pruning at the right time of year and in the correct way can encourage a rose bush or climber to flourish. And don't spend lots of money buying packets of seeds or already grown plants - learn the tricks of propagation and you can raise plants from cuttings and by dividing existing plants - for real garden satisfaction.