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Each month, receive tips on the top jobs needed in your garden as well as a wealth of information on a range of gardening topics. From sowing seeds to picking fruit, each month get access to information on the care and maintenance of your flowerbeds, vegetable plot and lawn. As with your own gardening diary, the journal is split into separate sections, each covering a different area of garden care.
Friday, 4 January 2019
This Month in Your Garden – January
‘New Year’s day is everyman’s birthday.’ Charles Lamb

Welcome back to the Gardener’s Journal where we begin our journey and open the door to a new gardening year. If it’s cold outside we can sit by the fire with the seed and plant catalogues, plotting what plant where in the coming months.
Wednesday, 2 January 2019
The Lawn Care Guide: January
Care and repair

It’s a good time to establish lawn edges using a half moon edger and, weather permitting, you can lay turves to create a new lawn if you already have the area prepared. Weeds that appear on the lawn can be picked out by hand using a hand fork and pressing the grass and soil back down.
The Vegetable Plot – January
Every good potato deserves flavour

You don’t need a big patch to grow them in, you can even use a large trug or bucket or even a stack of old tyres. But first you need to chit and that’s done by placing the miniature tubers into empty egg cartons with the eye area facing up.
The Big Glut Recipe – January
Persian lamb tagine

Ingredients
- 2kg lamb neck fillets
- 5 tbsp mild olive oil or sunflower oil
- 3 medium onions, cut into thin wedges
- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 4 tsp ground cumin
- 4 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp hot chilli powder
- 1 tsp ground turmeric
- large pinch of saffron
- 2 cinnamon sticks
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