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Keeping your plants free of disease is key to ensuring their continued growth and healthy development. One of the more common diseases that affects plants is powdery mildew disease, which can cause foliage to wither and affect how well plants can absorb nutrients. To prevent this disease from affecting your garden’s plants, read on to find out what powdery mildew is, what the signs of it are and how to treat it.

If you want to garden organically and ditch chemicals but still improve yields, companion planting is very important. It's all about establishing groups of plants that are beneficial to each other. An old idea, it was largely forgotten in the years where gardeners relied heavily on pesticides, but as more people want to go back to natural methods, companion planting has been rediscovered.

Clubroot is an infection that affects brassicas, leading to massively swollen and distorted roots with poor growth. Although there is no chemical control to kill off clubroot, there are preventative measures growers can take. If you have found clubroot disease to have previously affected your plants or are otherwise looking to best protect your plants from disease, read our tips below on how to prevent clubroot disease.

Slugs can be a big nuisance when tending to your plants and crops, and require proper methods of control to keep your garden free of them. To help protect your garden, we’ve put together a guide on how to get rid of slugs in your garden to keep your growing space pest-free. What slug killer should I use The most effective way when looking for ways of how to get rid of slugs in your garden is to use slug killer. There are many reliable methods of slug control to choose from, though we recomm...

The recent withdrawal of a number of treatments and chemical controls has meant that vegetable varieties with natural disease resistance are of more and more importance to the home gardener. Disease resistance is one of the main features we look for when evaluating varieties and have highlighted this throughout our range.

As we get into the swing of spud season, we have had some questions coming in regarding the chitting process. Light or dark, warm or cold? It can often be difficult to know if you’re chitting potatoes in the best way possible. So, if you’re looking to learn how to chit potatoes to give them the greatest opportunity to grow, here are some of our FAQs on chitting potatoes answered by our expert horticultural team

If the same vegetable or group of vegetables is grown in the same area of soil year after year, diseases and other problems build up in the soil affecting the plants' growth, usually with a reduction in yield and sometimes killing the plant.

You've finally been given the key to your allotment after what can be years of waiting - but where do you start?