Gardening Advice

How Riverside picks the trees in our range....

Choosing an Planting a Tree

Top tips and list of great plants for pollinators

How to Make a Planter

Non-seasonal and general advice blogs that you may find useful

Growing Guides

A quick guide to growing Chilli Peppers, plant care and some and some fun trivia!

Layering bulbs for a lasting display

Bulbs are a great way to extended colour in your garden and pots throughout the winter. Read for some tips and advice when planting your bulbs...

Jobs to do now on the allotment or veg patch

Suggestions for successful sowing and germination

Early February: Propagating tomato seed

Sowing and growing chilis and peppers

Tips for sowing and growing

Caring for your gardening tools

Keeping busy on cold days

Annual greenhouse clean and tidy

Making planting plans and choosing seed

Seasonal advice for all asparagus growers

Advice on planting a tree

(Nearly) all you need to know about what and how to mulch

Autumn harvest

Pruning and training a loganberry or tayberry plants for maximum fruiting

Sowing Phacelia

Why and how to hoe

Gardening hints and tips for early June

Have a go at growing this wonderful climbing bean

Down among the vegetables in mid-May

Protect those tender tips

Early April fun on the allotment or veg corner

Making a seed bed for sowing winter brassicas - late March

Hints and tips for veg growers - mid-March

Things to do on the allotment or veg patch – February week 1

Get your climbing beans off to a flying start

Hints and tips for January fun

Planting a fruit tree in winter

Suggestions for November gardening tasks

How to rig up a rainwater collection system to a shed

Suggestions for things to do in the veg patch or on the allotment

Suggestions to keep your greenhouse in tip-top shape: October week 3

Helpful advice for new allotment tenants

Garden fun on your allotment or veg patch - early September

Some helpful tips for fruit and veg gardeners

Late summer news from the allotment

Advice for vegetable gardeners - end of August

The joy of allotment gardening

Things to do on your allotment or in the veg patch: late July

Allotment harvest news

Tasks for the tail end of ‘Flaming June’!

Ideas for vegetable planting in late June

Midsummer in the vegetable garden

On your allotment – in the veg patch: June week 1

Jobs to do on the allotment at the start of June

Down on the allotment or in the veg patch – May week 1

Advice for veg growers at the end of April

Things to do on the allotment and in the garden in early April

A few suggestions for successful germination of veg seed

On the allotment - in the garden: end of March and early April. Are your seed potatoes ready and ow to plant them.

Things to do on the allotment or veg patch – March week 2

Things to do on your allotment during February

Things to do on your allotment or veg patch in mid-February

Things to do on the allotment or veg patch – February week 1

Winter pruning and tree care

Tasks to do on the allotment and garden veg patch during January. Buying Seed Potatoes - how to pick which variety and chitting

Suggestions for winter gardening

Tasks to do on the allotment during December

On the allotment - late October and into November

Time to sow on your allotment or veg patch - October week 4

Time to plant on your allotment - October week 2

Things to do on your allotment or in your veg patch – now!

Things to do on your allotment or veg patch in early September

On your allotment – in the veg patch: August week 1

Allotment and veg patch advice: June week 2

On your allotment – in the garden: early June

A guide to our top ten bee-friendly bedding plants.

On the allotment and veg patch – May week 1. How to grow successful potatoes - earthing up, frost and blight

On the allotment and veg patch – April week 3: Sowing Cucumbers, Courgettes, Squash and Melons

Things to do on the allotment or veg patch – March week 4

The secrets of germinating and growing Parsnips

Sowing, planting and harvesting Lettuces on the allotment or veg patch

Things to do on the allotment or veg patch – early February

Tasks to do on the allotment and garden veg patch during January week 4

Tasks to do on the allotment and garden veg patch during January week 3

Tasks to do on the allotment and in the garden during January week : Planting, feeding and forcing rhubarb

Tasks to do on the allotment and in the garden during December week 4

Tasks to do in the garden and on the allotment during December week 3

Tasks to do in the garden and on the allotment during December week 2

It's time to think about protecting tender plants from the onset of Winter.

A guide to Camellias including cultivation tips and advice on growing them in pots.