Michael Thurlow - Gardening Video Guides

Simple gardening guides designed to make growing organic fruit, flowers and vegetables fun. After 40 years of gardening for a living I hope to pass on some of the experience that I picked up along the way.

Forcing Prepared hyacinth bulbs

Always plant prepared bulbs in pots to have a spectacularly colourful and fragrant display over the festive season and in to the New Year. But to be able to do this the story starts in September... When the bulbs have finished flowering they can be planted in the garden and left to naturalise.

Added: 22/10/2018

Sweet Peas - Autumn Sowing - Part 1

Everybody loves sweet peas they are one of the classic sights and scents of summer. To produce long arching stems of fragrant flowers the seed should be sown in late October. Don't worry, although they look so fragile and delicate they are as tough as old boots and can survive anything that the winter weather throws at them.

Added: 22/10/2018