Automated cars, smart hoovers, self-driving trains and even now a shop where you scan your phone in order to enter and where there aren’t any tills. The world is becoming automated at a rather fast pace.

Now the robots have a new target: Weeds!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rorymackean/tertill-the-solar-powered-weeding-robot-for-home-g/posts/2089533

Not going to lie; this lil‘ guy looks very useful as a hacker and slasher of weeds. I’ll admit, It’s not my favourite task in the world and sometimes it seems like it can take forever with trying to pull each and every one out by the roots; especially if they have a tap root (looking at you here:.. Dandelions and Bracken; evil things), which is a pain in the butt. So I can see how Turtill can have its uses.

However, if you’re interest has been piqued by this, let me just remind you, we human gardeners can still remove Ivy from walls and trees. Turtill can’t! 1-0 Humans!!

Post by Stu. 

A topic that should, could, would, will, be on the top of every budding gardeners to do list.

Build it, fill it, turn it, empty it, spread it, burry it, plant in it. All that stuff.

Compost in the garden serves many, many useful purposes.  A natural weed barrier and a feed in one. All made from the comfort of your own home! Seriously useful stuff, right?!

So let us run through the stages/processes/fundamentals (Hence known as S.P.F) of having compost. Sound fun? Good! Get your note pad out and start taking notes. And no sleeping in class again, David!

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This is a subject that I seem to be asked about on a weekly basis. “What can we do about our lawn?” “Can we get rid of these weeds in the grass?” “When is the right time to feed and seed again?” So here’s a handy little guide that might help you keep your grass green and weed free and just looking tippy top!

There’s lots of little things you can systematically do to help your lawn, watering and using lawn weed killer are top of the list really, keep your grass watered and those weeds down, and your lawn should always look green. You can buy bags of weed and feed that’ll do double the job, kill weeds and aid in grass growth, so it really does kill two birds with one stone. How handy is that?! We use Evergreen 4 in 1 in the spring & summer (available at most garden centres) and a slow release feed in the autumn. 

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