Lazy Gardening Made Easy: Minimal Effort, Maximum Results
There are those for whom gardening is a happily complicated and time-consuming hobby. But today, I’m focusing on the believers in ‘minimal effort for maximum results’.
Effortless Gardening Solutions for Minimalists
Garden on a Roll – Border Bliss
Great new products have entered the market – specifically targeting you ‘less is more’ gardeners. And I’m here to talk you through them.
Garden on a Roll
Garden on a Roll is fantastic for first-timers. It’s a ready-made biodegradable paper template border, designed to fit the size and type you want – showing exactly where the provided plants need to go.
Fryd Garden Design App – Lazy Gardening at Your Fingertips
The Fryd Garden Design app is a lazy way to borrow other gardeners’ ideas! Download it for free to see planting plans from famous UK gardeners, and then replicate them for your own veg plots.
Dobbies – ‘Pick N Joy’ Range for Effortless Harvests
Dobbies have a £14.99 ‘Pick N Joy’ range of tomato, chilli, and aubergine plants windowsill-ready that arrive laden with produce – and the more you pick, the more they return! Genius.
Urban Farm’s Mesmerizing Mushroom Growing Kit
Urban Farm’s £22.49 Mushroom growing kit sees you simply add spores, sit back, and watch the fungi grow on a windowsill – just snap off when a recipe calls for it.
Pot Gang Subscription – Gardening Made Simple
Pot Gang’s £24.99 monthly subscription service sends you absolutely everything you need to grow fruit, veg, and herbs including seasonal seed, pots, compost, and step-by-step instructions to take the guesswork out of gardening.
Elho’s Greenville Plantpots – Water-Saving Wonders
Elho’s Greenville range of plant pots, starting from £5.89, has integrated reservoirs, reducing the time you need to spend watering.
The Rose Press Garden’s Floral Subscription – Blooms on Autopilot
The Rose Press Garden’s £25 flower subscription box provides you with all the seasonal bulbs, tubers, bare roots, and plants – plus Simple digital planting instructions, Grow-a-longs, and How-to Videos.
1. Lakeland’s Smart Indoor Garden
For the epitome of Lazy Gardening – Lakeland have a £199 Smart Indoor Garden – where you literally fill it with plugs of herbs provided, pop it near your cooker – and sensational fresh herbs will grow under ultraviolet light for up to a year.
2. Henchman’s Gardening Harness
And to really take the load off, Henchman have a new £249 harness for heavy gardening tools and machinery so you don’t have to shoulder the burden yourself – the epitome of minimal effort!!
HEDGE YOUR BETS
It’s Hedgehog Awareness Week – time to celebrate our prickly pals who roam gardens eating up beetles, caterpillars, and other invertebrates that like to feast on your plants.
SPRING INTO SPRING
Get ready for the RHS Malvern Spring festival and explore the world of houseplants, dancing gardens, and expert advice from gardening legends.
STRIP OFF
World Naked Gardening Day calls for embracing nature in the most natural state – get pruning in the buff or enjoy seeing your horticultural heroes bare it all for fun.
This Week’s Tip
Pesky sycamore seeds are sprouting – make sure you pull them up as the longer they stay in the soil, the harder they are to remove.
THIS WEEK’S JOB
Combat the snail invasion in your garden by going out at night with a head torch and picking off all the slugs and snails running rampant in your outside space.
WIN!
Participate in the Garden on a Roll giveaway for a chance to win a 3m X 6cm roll border biodegradable template of your choice worth £160 each!
SAVE!
Get your lawn edges precise with Wolf Garten grass shears for £22.99 or make cutbacks with Spear and Jackson’s £9.49 version from Amazon
LEARN!
Q: I wonder if you could identify this plant. It is a perennial and I’m sure its flowers are pink/purple. It is spreading everywhere, not sure if it’s a weed. Jenny Woodfield, via email.
A: You’re not the first person to ask about this plant. It’s obviously the time of year where it really goes wild. It’s almost certainly Green Alkanet – which is growing everywhere at the moment. It’s a weed – but so often mistaken for forget-me-not, borage, and even comfrey!!
Conclusion
With these effortless gardening solutions, you can achieve stunning results in your garden with minimal effort. Embrace lazy gardening and let these innovative products and tips do the hard work for you. Happy gardening!