Weed woes & solutions

How to tackle a garden plot that’s overrun with weeds in a way that works with nature! N.B. Before strimming a wild and overgrown area check for wildlife first, such as hedgehogs. Also, it’s better to strim before everything has set seed! I left it a bit late so I cut everything in half to …

Low maintenance garden design tips

I’m often asked about how to create a low-maintenance garden. So in this article, I’m going to share my top 3 tips as well as give you a video demonstration of how to do it… 1. DEFINE Low-Maintenance! What does low maintenance mean to YOU? One person’s easy can be another’s hard! For example, I …

GT19 – JADAM vs Electroculture UPDATE

Here’s how Rachel’s Electroculture and JADAM experiments are going so far… To see how the experiment was set up watch https://youtu.be/RTgYlsvOteA Garden Viking JADAM video tutorials here: https://www.successfulgardendesign.com/jadam-garden-viking-solutions/ Yannicks’s Electroculture tutorials here: https://www.successfulgardendesign.com/electroculture-lectures-with-yannick-van-doorne/ Comments comments

Design Student – Pat’s Garden

This is Pat’s garden, she’s in the UK and here’s what she did with her blank canvas garden after completing the Fast-Track Garden Design Formula Course… I first discovered Rachel when she came to design my previous garden some 14/15 yrs ago. Moving to a new build house and starting a new garden from scratch …

Joyful June Planting Combinations

June can be quite a tricky month for our garden planting schemes.  After the first flurry of excitement, and new plant eruptions throughout Spring – March, April, May – it can sometimes feel that the garden starts to fade and get a little bit untidy and unruly.  Well, it does in my garden, anyway! This …

How to deal with a small awkward shaped garden – Case study

Not all gardens are the perfect square or rectangle, sometimes they are an awkward and odd shape. Don’t let that put you off though. There’s some really simple steps you can take to transform any awkward shape garden into a beautiful one. Step 1 The 1st thing you need to do with any awkward shape …

GT18 Electroculture vs Garden Viking JADAM

You might think you’re doing Electroculture, but are you really? And how does it compare to other natural methods of soil improvement like JADAM? Watch Yannick’s lectures here: https://www.successfulgardendesign.co… Watch a selection of the Garden Like a Viking JADAM tutorials here: https://www.successfulgardendesign.co… Comments comments