26/06/2012
Fancy building your own bee hotel?
Gardening for Champions
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The team from the University of Leeds explains how you become a gardening champion This page has been created by the team at the University of Leeds.
A gardener can become a gardening champion by improving the quality or quantity of the individual services of a garden. Many gardeners are already well aware of the importance of, for example, having a wildflower corner, installing water butts, or avoiding peat-based soil products. However, by making lots of often small but interconnected changes to a garden, a gardener can reap the many benefits
26/06/2012
Pollinators provide vital services for many crops, and especially fruit and vegetable production.
What to make your garden more water friendly?
Use your garden to reduce your carbon footprint by growing your own food. A 600g serving of frozen carrots can release greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1kg carbon dioxide (CO2). Growing your own can dramatically reduce your carbon footprint. However, these savings can easily be outweighed, for example by taking special car journeys to buy the seeds, or by relying on chemical fertilisers and pesticides, all with their own carbon emissions.
We’re still waiting for Patricia Morgan, the winner of our wonderful Bee hotel to get in touch. If we don’t hear anything by Monday 18th June, we will be giving the prize away to charity.
The long Jubilee weekend is here! What are you planning to do with those extra days off?
Did all the lovely sunshine we had recently help your garden grow?
Well done Helen Boyd! You can thank your grandmother now, you have just won our VIP tickets to BBC Gardeners’ World Live. Your tip, placing used tea leaves around the base of Hydrangeas to change the colour they bloom in, received the most likes making it the top tip in the Messy Garden. Message us with your details and we’ll get the tickets over to you as soon as.
25/05/2012
A lot of you probably haven't been able to get over to RHS Chelsea and see our award winning garden. Here it is, what do you all think?
24/05/2012
Hi Guys, you only have a few days left to enter our fantastic competition in the Messy Garden. Leave us your best gardening tip and win tickets to the BBC Gardeners World Live show in Birmingham on 13th-17th June: http://apps.facebook.com/messy-garden/
23/05/2012
Our hat seems to have been so popular this week it has managed to get its own blog: http://rhschelseahatgirl.tumblr.com/
We've won the gold! Our garden came out top in the Environment category with our first ever exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
University of Leeds takes Gold at Chelsea Flower Show - University of Leeds University of Leeds News - University of Leeds takes Gold at Chelsea Flower Show - The University of Leeds has scooped Gold at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show today (22 May) with its first exhibit at the prestigious event.
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