Tony Flanagan

  • Oh no! Leggy Seedlings!

    Oh no! Leggy Seedlings!

    Do your seedlings look like this? It’s not unusual if we start sowing indoors early that we get leggy seedlings I’ve often had this problem with tomato and pepper seedlings. So keen to get sowing and making a head start!…

    Read more…

  • VIDEO: Top Tips for March

    VIDEO: Top Tips for March

    There’s so much to do this month. Check out our range of tip-top videos from Steve and Tony packed with how-to guides and advice! Sowing carrots with Steve Ott Checking forced rhubarb with Tony Flanagan Sowing lettuce with Steve Ott

    Read more…

  • The cow’s digestive system could revolutionise renewable energy

    The cow’s digestive system could revolutionise renewable energy

    Scientists look at the way relatively unknown fungi works inside the guts of herbivores in hopes of revolutionising biomass technology. Professor Theodorou, leader of the Agricultural Centre of Sustainable Energy Systems (ACSES) at Harper Adams University, is among the group…

    Read more…

  • Green fingers at the ready

    Green fingers at the ready

    Are you proud of your garden and what you grow in it? Then enter the North Lincolnshire garden competition for your chance to win £100 The competition is split into seven categories: • Best large garden (over 100 square metres) • Best…

    Read more…

  • BLUEBELL WALKS AT RODE HALL

    BLUEBELL WALKS AT RODE HALL

    Experience one of the finest Bluebell Walks in the North West at Rode Hall and Gardens in Cheshire New for 2016, visitors can enjoy Rode’s carpets of ancient bluebells even more extensively due to the recent discovery and restoration of an…

    Read more…

  • Carbon gold studies show enriched biochar suppresses ash dieback

    Carbon gold studies show enriched biochar suppresses ash dieback

    Tree care products produced by Carbon Gold have been found to suppress ash dieback in a recent study featured on the BBC’s Countryfile. The research featured on the BBC’s best-loved programme reveals that ash dieback could be more effectively managed…

    Read more…

  • Gardeners’ Question Time at The Edible Garden Show

    Gardeners’ Question Time at The Edible Garden Show

    BBC Radio 4’s GQT is to be broadcast from The Edible Garden Show and members of the public can apply for free tickets to be in the audience! Gardeners’ Question Time (GQT) will be recorded on the Saturday of The…

    Read more…

  • Garden Re-Leaf Day

    Garden Re-Leaf Day

    Greenfingers Charity has designated Friday, March 18 March as Garden Re-Leaf day. On that day and during the weekend that follows garden centres and garden retailers around the country will be showing off the best of their plants and gardening…

    Read more…

  • Over 100 gardens set to Embrace Snowdrop Festival

    Over 100 gardens set to Embrace Snowdrop Festival

    The National Gardens Scheme is excited to invite members of the public to enjoy its first ever Snowdrop Festival in February 2016. The Festival will see more than one hundred gardens open across England and Wales through the month of…

    Read more…

  • Top Tip: use coffee grounds to enrich your soil

    Top Tip: use coffee grounds to enrich your soil

    If you drink filtered coffee, don’t throw your coffee grounds away. They are excellent for the garden. Coffee grounds are a great source of nitrogen, just what your leaves love, though it’s not a quick nitrogen fix. The nitrogen in…

    Read more…

  • London Farms and Garden Show

    London Farms and Garden Show

    More than 20 London charities took in the 17th annual London Farms and Gardens Show on September 19. Feedback on the standard of exhibits from judges, who included staff from the Chelsea Physic Garden and Duchy College, was excellent. To…

    Read more…

  • Mr Fothergill’s Appointed Corporate Patron

    Mr Fothergill’s Appointed Corporate Patron

    Mr Fothergill’s relationship with the Royal Hospital Chelsea has resulted in the Suffolk seedsman being appointed its first Corporate Patron Governor of the RHC Gen Sir Redmond Watt (centre) welcomes Tim Jeffries (l) and David Carey (r) of Mr Fothergill’s…

    Read more…