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Gardening tasks in spring

Here, the wall behind the outdoor kitchen was utilised – perfect for herbs that can be picked and used immediately.

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Vertical Farming

The perfect garden for insects? It should be a little wild and not too tidy so they can find food and shelter.

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Insect-friendly garden

A house, a child, and a tree are the three major life goals. Planting a tree is the easiest one to achieve. We'll explain how.

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Planting a tree and creating a tree pit

The more robust your plants, the less frequently you’ll need to water them. If you’d like to use collected rainwater, the GardenPump makes it easy to pump and water your plants conveniently with a garden hose or irrigation system.

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Defying climate change with climate-resilient plants

Some trees, such as the Japanese maple, can be grown in containers. The limited space for the roots ensures the plant doesn’t grow too quickly. This is ideal for preventing cramped conditions on a balcony or terrace.

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The 12 best trees for small gardens

It’s all about perspective! These so-called weeds are edible wild herbs that can add a delightful savoury flavour to salads and sauces.

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Wild herbs and weeds

Using a hose with a spray nozzle makes watering convenient. Aim it at the roots of the plants so the water reaches exactly where it’s needed.

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Saving water in the garden

Living wall with planted tubes: sedum (stonecrop), sempervivum (houseleek, roof houseleek), Sagina (pearlwort), thyme (Thymus), and Acaena inermis 'Purpurea' (purple New Zealand burr).

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Vertical gardening

A vegetable bed in the smallest of spaces: The trellis allows you to make use of vertical space as well.

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Square foot gardening: gardening in squares

When lavender is planted in large areas, easy pruning is essential. With the Isio shrub and grass shears from Bosch, you can quickly, easily, and precisely shape your lavender bushes.

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Properly pruning and propagating lavender

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Fruit and vegetables for shady spaces

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Creating, caring for and harvesting a vegetable garden

Peat-free substrates are much more environmentally friendly and make the garden bloom just as well as those containing peat.

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Gardening without peat

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Which plant is best for my balcony?

Growing and propagating plants

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Growing and propagating plants

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Planting, caring for and propagating succulents

Build your own cold frame: A planted cold frame made of wood stands on a gravel bed in front of a house wall

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Building your own cold frame: the ultimate DIY guide

A man cleaning a window

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Cleaning Windows: Here’s How to Get Streak Free Windows in Next to No Time

A self-sufficient garden, like this one with a variety of plant species, offers the perfect opportunity to grow your vegetables independently.

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Self-sufficient garden – harvest and enjoy all year round

A shady garden is the ideal habitat for shrubs, ferns, and flowering perennials.

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Plants for the shady garden

A fully-fledged herb garden is hanging over a balcony railing.

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Set up a herb garden on your balcony

Ornamental grasses are attractive plants in the garden. They are available in various colors and shapes.

Garden, Balcony & Terrace

Ornamental grasses

Creating a flower bed: well-kept garden with curved, colourfully planted flower beds

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Creating a flower bed: Location, planning & plant selection

When lavender is planted in large areas, easy pruning is essential. With the Isio shrub and grass shears from Bosch, you can quickly, easily, and precisely shape your lavender bushes.

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Properly pruning and propagating lavender

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Bee-friendly balcony flowers: How to support insects

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Rescuing frostbitten hydrangeas: How it's done

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Near-natural gardening and encouraging beneficial insects

Pricking out tomatoes correctly will give you strong plants and a juicy harvest.

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Pricking out tomatoes: Here's how to do it right

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Planting strawberries: here is the proper way to do it

Bamboo can be readily propagated in your garden, but it needs a rhizome barrier.

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Propagating bamboo and installing rhizome barriers

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Building your own tomato house: read how to do it here

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Regrowing – allowing leftover vegetables to grow back

Multiple fruit-bearing apple trees in a field

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Pruning apple trees: why, how and when

Various plant pots with blossoming and evergreen plants are lined up against the stonewall of a house.

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Planting plant pots: the right way

A smiling young woman with long, dark hair wearing a checked shirt stands in a garden with her arms crossed, holding clippings of branches and a pair of pruning shears in her hands

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Pruning: how and when to prune trees and bushes correctly

Garden Shredder in the garden

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10 Garden Shredder Tips

Perennials in the garden

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Planting, Pruning and Maintaining Perennials

Pruning climbing roses

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The Correct Way to Prune Climbing Roses

A small child is watering the lawn with a pink watering can. Her mother is standing further back and is also watering the lawn.

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Design your own family garden: relaxation, playtime and fun

A natural pond in a garden setting, surrounded by evergreen plants.

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Installing a garden pond: Creating the perfect water feature for your garden

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Tutorial: How to trim your hedges

Goldfish are swimming around a blossoming water lily in a garden pond.

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Garden ponds – mini ecosystems with diverse fauna and flora

Three clay pots with small olive trees are standing in a row.

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Planting an olive tree: here’s how

A small pineapple plant grows in front of a wooden wall.

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Planting pineapple: here’s how

Three glasses are standing on a table with small avocado plants growing in them.

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Planting avocado: here’s how

A garden filled with different-coloured rose bushes in full bloom

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Pruning roses – how to do it right, no matter what type of rose

Two cupped hands are filled with soil.

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Compost – everything you need to know about the elixir of the gardening world

Wooden garden furniture on a patio: it’s particularly important to give wood some TLC after the winter.

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Spring cleaning outdoors: how to spruce up your decking, patio or balcony after winter

Man and woman planning their garden with raised beds

Garden Knowledge

How do I create a garden? Seven steps to becoming a gardening pro.

A wooden lounger is being sanded down using a multi-sander.

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How to sand and oil garden furniture properly

Wooden patio with furniture

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Proper Cleaning and Maintenance for a Wooden Patio

A wooden compost bin is filled with leaves and wood chips.

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Building your own compost bin – it’s easy!