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How To

Step-by-step guides for every garden task, from pruning roses to building a compost bin.

Every guide in this section comes from a job done on a real plot, written the way you would do it: which tool, which month, and what it should look like when you finish. There are 356 guides here. Most garden jobs in Britain are timing jobs. Done in the right month, they take half the effort and the plant recovers faster.

Start here. These five cover the jobs readers ask about most:

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