Experience
Fruit and Vegetables
Examples of recent fruit and vegetable work include:
Growing from seed: Carrots, leeks, parsnips, runner beans.
Growing tomatoes, peppers, potatoes.
Fruit tree pruning (apples/pears).
Roses
Experience working in a garden with 90+ roses, including bush roses, climbers, and ramblers. In other gardens, pruning and maintaining a wide range of varieties in different locations.
Weed Control
Working with troublesome plants including: ground elder; creeping cinquefoil; green alkanet; winter heliotrope; hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium) and field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).
Wildlife
Planting to enhance wildlife in the garden wherever possible; maintaining existing plants that are beneficial such as flowers for pollinators, berries for birds, and plants for structure and habitat.
Soil testing and enhancement
Soil structure and pH testing. Advice on improving structure including mulching, manure and bark types. Expertise on the various types of compost including peat free.