Category: ABOUT GARDEN

One of the most popular trees in the British garden used to be the cherry tree. Over the last 30 years the sale of cherry trees have gone into decline. What happened? Do we not eat cherries any more?

Yes, we still eat cherries, but we don’t buy cherry trees to plant in our gardens. Most of the cherries for sale in the UK are imported from countries such as Spain and France. That needs to change if we want to continue enjoy eating cherries post Brexit.

Are Cherry Trees High Maintenance?

Compared to other fruit trees, cherry trees are very low maintenance. They are easy to prune and relatively disease free.

As long as you plant them in the right location, prune and fertilise them, cherry trees will continue to crop for many years to come.

You Can Do So Much With Cherries

Cherries are one of the more versatile fruits that you can grow in your garden. As a matter of fact, there is almost no end to things that you can do with cherries.

Of course, you can eat them straight of the tree. However, most cherry trees you can buy produce a generous amount of fruit that you may just want to turn it into other treats.

Cherry jam is delicious and the cherry jelly tastes great with chicken and cheese. Stoning the fruit takes a little bit of work but is worth it. Once it has been stoned, it tastes great when added to pies … Read More

Gardening can be rewarding even though it is difficult to start especially if you reside in urban areas because of the ability to find enough space thus leading to the usage of outdoor spaces like your porches and balconies.

Do you have an interest in learning how to start a garden; there are ways to go about gardening on Collected.Reviews.

A balcony garden as the name implies is a garden created on the balcony of a house, this usually happens when there is limited space. It is part of green energy opinions that creating a garden can help in purifying and beautifying the environment. It is imperative that intending balcony gardeners know one or two things as regards suitable plants to raise, how they should be raised, materials to make use of, and other necessary information. Here are steps for starting a garden on your balcony:

1. Check for Building Rules:

The first thing to do before you begin the process of gardening is to check your apartment, as well as the community rule,which allows for the usage of the balcony for gardening. If it does, you can proceed to the next step

2. Assess Your Balcony’s Strength:

Consider if your balcony can take on the weight of the pots of soil you would use for planting. This would give you an insight on which kind of pot to use depending on the weight.

3. Design a Way to Get Water to Your Balcony: 

How to get water readily … Read More