Charlie Dimmock has revealed her top tips for improving your garden, and they’re surprisingly simple. In a new interview with Home UK magazine, the BBC star advised fellow gardeners to focus on three things: maintaining your lawn, as well as ensuring that bedding plants are regularly deadheaded, and well-fed to maximise growth.
“If you have a lawn keep it looking in the best of condition by mowing and edging regularly rather than leaving it a couple of weeks and then tackling it as this makes it look tatty and weak,” the Garden Rescue presenter said. “Dead heading roses and bedding plants not only makes the plants look tidy and neat but it encourages more blooms. Make sure you remove the whole flower head and not just the petals.”
“By feeding your plants, it will boost their growth and flowering, even if it’s as simple as using garden compost under shrubs or slow-release fertiliser in containers.”
With winter drawing nearer, Charlie, 59, has also offered advice on prepping your garden for the cold season. Much like her top tips for improving a garden, the TV star is focused on maintaining a tidy outdoor space. As part of that, the presenter recommends regularly raking the leaves to minimise damage to the lawn and investing in a “good cross section of evergreens” so there’s still “structure and interest” in your garden.
For Charlie, her passion for gardening started early on. Speaking with Female First in 2016, she recalled: “When I was a child I used to love being outside in the garden, I’d either gravitate to the pond (there’s always so much going on in a pond) or down to where my grandad was gardening – mainly in the veggie patch and I’d end up ‘helping’.
“And at junior school, we used to have gardening lessons through the spring and summer terms, which involved us growing plants in the classroom, and in pairs, we had a small garden plot that the plants we propagated went into. Also, as a teenager, my weekend and holiday job was at a garden centre, which just kept my interest going.”
Comments are closed.