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(28)Bulbs (5)Composting (1)Downloads (57)Fruit (36)General (9)Lawn Care (4)Mushrooms (10)Onions Garlic and Shallots (52)Online Ordering (86)Pests and Diseases (171)Plants (12)Potatoes (40)Seeds (9)Tools and Equipment (14)Trees and Shrubs (2)Wildlife

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(28)Bulbs How and where do I plant my Bluebells? How and where do I plant my tulip bulbs? How and where should I plant my bluebell bulbs? How and where should I plant my daffodil bulbs? How can I prevent a white fungal growth on the base of my onion bulbs? How deep and how far apart do I plant my Crocus bulbs? How deep do I plant my allium bulbs? How deep do I plant my Muscari (grape hyacinth) bulbs? How deep do I plant my winter aconite bulbs? How do I care for my amaryllis now that it has stopped flowering?	(5)Composting Can I plant Super Plug (pot ready) perennial plants outdoors straightaway? How can I prevent the compost becoming wet and smelly? What materials can be composted? Where should I position my compost bin? Why is the material in my compost bin very dry and not breaking down?	(1)Downloads Plant Growing Guides
(57)Fruit Delivery of live plants, fruit and potatoes Dormant strawberries. Fruit tree rootstocks - what rootstock is used? How can I prevent grubs eating the fruit on my raspberries? How can I prevent mildew on my gooseberries and are there any resistant varieties?	(36)General Are my tomatoes for growing outdoors or in a greenhouse and should I remove the side shoots? Are there any plants deer are less likely to eat? Can I find Dobies on Facebook, Twitter or Youtube? Can I have some items delivered to me and some items delivered to a different address? Do you accept National Garden Gift Vouchers? Do you run a scheme for allotment groups and gardening clubs? How do I order online? How do I send you an email? How do you grow trench varieties of celery? How do you train a standard fuchsia?	(9)Lawn Care How can I control a ring of toadstools in my lawn? How do I care for my lawn in Autumn? How do I control red threads that are appearing in my lawn? How do I over sow my my lawn? How do I sow grass seed and prepare the ground? Lawn Care Calendar What has caused brown patches in my lawn? When can I cut the grass on my newly sown? When is the best time to sow grass seed?
(4)Mushrooms What are the instructions for my button mushroom kit? What are the instructions for my oyster mushroom kit? What are the instructions for my shitake mushroom kit? What type and size of log do I need for mushroom plugs?	(10)Onions Garlic and Shallots How can I prevent a white fungal growth on the base of my onion bulbs? How do I grow garlic? How do I grow shallots from seed? How do I plait my garlic and what are the benefits? How do you grow onion from sets? How do you grow shallots from sets? How many bulbs are there in a pack of shallots? How many onion sets are there in a pack? What are the cultural requirements for growing onions from sets? What size are the onion sets?	(52)Online Ordering Amending my order Can I have some items delivered to me and some items delivered to a different address? Can I pay by Paypal? Can I register with a UK address and have goods delivered overseas? Can you deliver to non EU addresses? Delivery of live plants, fruit and potatoes
(86)Pests and Diseases Can you tell me why black to dark brown fungal growth has appeared on my French Beans and Runner Beans? Do you supply any impatiens that are not affected by downy mildew? Honey Fungus How can canker on apples and pears be controlled? How can I control Apple Powdery Mildew? How can I control blackfly on my runner beans? How can I control caterpillars that are eating the fruit on my plum tree? How can I control leek rust? How can I control peach leaf curl? How can I control powdery mildew on peas?	(171)Plants Can I plant my bare root perennial plants direct into the garden? Can I plant potted perennial plants straight into the garden? Can I plant Super Plug (pot ready) perennial plants outdoors straightaway? Can my vegetable plants be planted direct into the garden? Can you recommend plants that require watering less often in dry spells?	(12)Potatoes Delivery of live plants, fruit and potatoes Do I need to chit my potatoes? How do I grow my late season potatoes? How do I plant my seed potatoes? How do you grow potatoes in your Patio Growing Kit? How many seed potatoes are there in a 1kg pack? I am concerned that my seed potatoes may have been frost damaged in the cold weather. Potato varieties and the best method of cooking Should I feed my potatoes? What area will a bag of potato and fruit fertiliser cover?
(40)Seeds Are your seeds treated with chemicals? How can I grow an early crop of French Beans in greenhouse? How do you force chicory for winter use? How do you grow Celeriac? How do you grow cucamelons? How do you grow microgreens? How do you grow New Zealand Spinach? How do you grow purslane?	(9)Tools and Equipment Can the automatic roof vent opener be attached to a wooden greenhouse? How long will the weed burner flame gun run on one tank of fuel? What area will one bag of Rockdust will cover? What is the blade width of the three pronged canterbury hoe? What is the Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive? What is the width of the flat blade on the Canterbury Hoe? What Link-a-Bord kits do I need to buy to make a raised bed 2 x 1m x 30cm high? When can I use the Natural Greenhouse Fumigator and what area will it treat? When planting my Super Plugs (pot ready plants) should the netting or fibre material around the roots be removed?	(14)Trees and Shrubs How do I care for my Albeliophyllum distichum? How do I care for my Ceanothus 'Blue Sapphire'? How do I care for my Chaenomeles (Flowering Quince)? How do I care for my Cornus sanquinea 'Midwinter Fire'? How do I care for my Corylus avellana 'Contorta'? How do I care for my Hamamelis x intermedia 'Diane' and 'Pallida'? How do I care for my Jasmine nudiflorum? How do I care for my Mahonia 'Winter Sun'? How do I care for my Philadelphus virginalis? How do I care for my Rhododendron?
(2)Wildlife How do I plant my anti-mole bulbs? Which seeds and plants in your range attract pollinating insects?

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