Suttons Seeds Examines the Importance of Bee-friendly Gardening
Suttons Seeds Leading garden retailer Suttons Seeds has examined the importance of bee-friendly gardening in their latest visual. From pollenating flowers to creating honey, bees play a vital yet often overlooked role. Despite providing around 1/3 of our available food, the population of bees is in decline as a result of factors like disease, urbanisation, intensive farming and Colony Collapse Disorder. The visual looks at the...
How to Remove Chewing Gum From Carpets and Upholstery
What’s worse than finding a stain on your sofa, a cushion or on a favourite rug? Finding a sticky piece of chewing gum stuck to it! If you’re lucky, you may be able to simply peel it off – but what do you do when it won’t budge and has caused a sticky mess? Luckily, it’s not quite as bad as it looks. Once you’ve finished telling the kids off about causing the mess and inconvenience in the first place, here’s the best way to approach a...
How To Protect Your Lawn From Heavy Traffic
Grass is a very durable substance; it can survive very dry spells and ‘recover’ once it receives water, and it can also recover from water logging. That said, it can suffer lasting damage after being subject to heavy levels of foot or vehicle traffic when wet as it gets flattened and compacted into the soft earth beneath. Excess water, such as that caused by sudden or prolonged bouts of rainfall or poor drainage, is a real problem if...
Crumbling Plaster Puts Off Homebuyers – Fix Before You Sell
Buying a house is serious business, and with hundreds of thousands of pounds at stake, buyers can be easily put off a property if something is not quite right. A recent survey from GoCompare highlighted the top 20 things that are most likely to deter home-buyers, with the list including dirty or cluttered rooms, damp patches and an outdated kitchen. Somewhat unsurprisingly, homes that are in poor state of repair featured very highly...
Quality Metal Garden Furniture Can Last a Lifetime
A garden can be your own private oasis at home, a place to sit and enjoy the sunshine, play games with your children, host barbecues, and take part in many more of the best things in life. The right garden furniture can be the perfect centrepiece for a garden, bringing all of the elements together to form a garden that represents you, and is the perfect place to relax. The last thing you want once you have worked out the perfect...
