Here at Hartley Botanic we are looking forward to spring and the excitement that comes with it; seeing the garden ‘come-to-life’. Spring is arguably one of the busiest times of the year, especially if you grow your own veg! Whether you are busy planting seeds or preparing the soil for this years crops, you’ll want your garden to be “blooming” marvellous by the time summer is upon you.Hartley Botanic want to help get you back in the gardening spirit, so we have decided to aid you by providing you with everything you need for the years gardening ahead!
First Prize – A Gardening Goody Bag
Let’s talk gardening!
To be in with a chance of winning this amazing prize, all you have to is write your best spring gardening tip on the Hartley Botanic Facebook wall. The best spring gardening tip with the most votes (likes) and comments will be the winner.
Good Luck and we look forward to reading your tips!
Sub-Competition – Individual Gardening Tools
Whilst we realise that you would love to win the goody bag containing everything it maybe that one only need a specific tool, you know; that garden rake you’ve used for the past 20 years really has had its final growing season?
You can find these brand new Which? Gardening approved ‘best buy’ gardening tools, seen in the main prize above, on the Hartley Botanic Facebook wall.
- Draper Expert 44971 Stainless Steel Digging Fork with FSC-Certified Ash Handle
- Fiskars 160000 Garden Gloves
- Fiskars 911470w Stainless Steel Swoe
- Spear & Jackson Select Stainless Soil Rake
- Spear & Jackson – Razorsharp Ratchet Twist Anvil Secateurs
- Slug Gone 100% Organic Slug Repellant Deterrent Wool Pellets
- Fiskars Power 911570w Digging Spade
All you have to do is;
- Like the Hartley Botanic Facebook page
- Like this competition page
- Like the tools in question
- And leave a comment underneath the tool telling us why you want to win it, it’s that simple!
Good luck gardeners!
This year marks my 40th birtay and the first time I’ve actually had a garden to work in. I am a bit of a bungling gardiner and still finding out what I should be oing. Therefore any help I could receive would be greatly appreciated.
use your old plastic coffee cups to plants seeds in
the draper fork would be great
I would love to win the hoe. Not 100% sure what its for but looks like I could dig the top of the ground with it. I’m a rubbish gardener, luckily I have a wonderful neighbour who tells me what to keep and what to dig up.
We worked really hard in the garden last year, would love some new tools to keep it in top top condition
Always save your inner toilet roles for planting seedlings or young bedding plants out in. Great insulation and protection for them whilst funnelling early shoots deeper into the soil, when plants become established they decompose quickly without harming the plant or your soil.
great prize
Hi – I was told about this last year and it really works. When you have your hair cut ask your hairdresser for it (and other surplus hair if you want) and put it round your plants and it deters snails and snugs. It can also help towards good soil.
My brother has just got his own house and these tools would be fab for him to make the garden his own.
I would love a pair of your Fiskars 160000 Garden Gloves mine are full of holes & always leaving my nails dirty.
MyGardering Tools came with the ARK
I would like to win as I would really apprecciate the prize and make full use of it. I have put my spring tip on your wall. “my spring tip is to put a rain butt in your garden, cost effective and helps the environment by reusing water”.
The Digging Spade would make a big difference on my allotment in my quest for self-sufficiency!
The digging spade would be perfect for me, the handle on my old spade has broken and it is hardly worth spending any money on a repair job.
the little windmills that you can pick up for a pound at the seaside are great for keeping mice out of your pea row or birds off your cabbages, just place them 3-4 foot apart up the row and the noise they make whilst spinning scares off pests
i said to my wife if i win this prize i will give you a nice garden to sit out in. that put a smile on her face.
I would really love to win the rake.
I want to win because I Love Gardening and very proud of my flower beds and little veggie plot(Onions,radishes,carrots and strawberries for my 4 year old)With this fabulous garden tools there will be no stopping me!
I’m not really into gardening at the moment but would love to be able to grow more of my own fruits and vegetables. I actually only own a trowel right now and some pieces of cane, so would love particularly the secateurs.
I’d like to win a spade as the wooden handle on mine snapped when I was trying to dig up a dead bush
Gardening is my thing digging is the new bling i love to plant all sorts of flowers from daisy’s to
carnations in a circled ring thinking of new ideas for my garden so it looks brilliant but ill need your help so please let me win!
I want to win these tools so that I can grow my own and eat more healthily
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all the tools would be fab for me cos have just moved into a new property and REALLY have to do something with the garden as soon as the warmer weather comes…can’t wait to start the project and this win would help enormously!!!
If you have any old bubble wrap, use it to help keep your compost warm and stop late frosts from damaging new roots by lining it in your flower pots.
would love the fork just what l need to sort my jungle out its a new year so will go out and do the gardening and a fork is what l have not got
If I won I would give this to my mum, it would make her very happy as she loves gardening but doesn’t have all the right tools!
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for all your great tips so far! Just a reminder that to be in with a chance of winning your Spring tip needs to be on the Hartley Botanic Facebook page. (see above).
Thank you!
new garden…currently rubble…much needed!
When tending your garden in early spring or after heavy rainfall when the ground is easily compacted, avoid standing directly on the soil and instead obtain a wide plank of wood such as a scaffold board which can be used to stand on and will spread your weight keeping your feet clean and your soil in tip top condition.
I’d love to win this wonderful prize as an incentive for my husband to tidy up our garden and get it ship-shape for the Spring!
Hi – Thanks for opportunity to enter. I am not sure what exactly what I am meant to be doing – a bit like my gardening I suppose. But as they say nothing ventured – nothing gained. I do love eating my garden peas and veg and pots. Looking forward to some heat and sunshine in the garden again.
Hi Barbara, just write your top spring gardening tip on our Facebook Page
It would set me up for the start of the season, so i can start feeding my family for free with the help of some new tools x
I always start spring off by tidying up my herb beds; the thought of lovely tasty food inspires me even when it is really cold. Lots of my herbs started life as ordinary supermarket herbs. I just plant them outside and most of them survived even last winter!
I have no garden tools and just a newbie too gardening. I hope to turn my large but messy garden into a lovely eye pleasing space to relax in come summer.
We just bought a house with a huge garden and this is our first house with garden. By summer I like my garden to be filled with vegetables, fruits and flowers. I am not sure if it is possible but I would love to try. At the moment we dont have a single gardening tool. I would really love to win this to see fruits and flowers in my garden. Thank you
i need some new secateurs
Don’t put off your planting until the weather gets better, go and buy some bulbs and seeds and plant them into pots and put them on a windowsill in the house, then when the weather gets warmer you can plant them out and have a beautiful colourful garden. Take it from me, I’ve left it much too late in the past and regretted not having my plants ready, then had to spend even more money buying plants the plants I could have grown myself if I was more organised. If you’re not sure what you are doing check out websites such as this for wonderful practical advice and tips.
def a shovel, broke ours in the snow last year
The digging spade would be perfect for me
Got an allotment last year, but having to share the tools between the allotment and home (and its 2 miles away) – which means lots of carrying tools from one to the other. If I win the new tools, then my old ones can stay at the allotment.
I would like to win these for my mum as she is fab!
Pls enter me for prize draw, I love gardenings!!
I need them badly!
can’t wait for spring to come and spent more time in my garden
I would love to win any tools to help me dig over my heavy clay soil, so I can plant some vegetables. Fingers crossed!!
Take the opportunity to clear weeds and moss from the garden and from the paving stones as spring approaches.
i would love to win ,it will help me keep my garden lovely great comp
I WOULD LOVE TO WIN, MIGHT KICK START ME INTO DOING SOME GARDENING!
Hi, would love to win any of these items as mine are very old and bent from lots of gardening!
Make sure you put loads of goodness into the soil now (manure and compost) to reap the benefits of plentiful vegetables and flowers in the summer.
Love these and in dire need of some new tools
I have a big garden and its a work in progress the tools would help no end.
i love gardening any tools would be handly i also get my little nieces and nephews involved that love it so much , and at the same time they get lots of fresh air
This would be a great start in my new garden, here’s to my green fingers crossed
Spear & Jackson – Razorsharp Ratchet Twist Anvil Secateurs
I want to win because I Love Gardening and i don’t have many tools. This prize would be so helpful ,mostly slug gone basket
I need it,as last year slugs been attacking me lol
id like to win cause we have just moved into a new house and have absolutely nothing for the garden yet!
The swoe would be sooo cool ty
fantastic prize looks great
Fiskars 160000 Garden Gloves, my old gloves have holes in them.
I have just acquired my first allotment winning these items would come in very handy.
id like 2 win as ive not long moved in 2 a new house the garden is a tip and i have so much i need 2 do to it this summer!
Save empty toilet roll holders.
They toilet roll holders are handy to space things to plant bulbs etc
I’d love to win these as last year my husband and I ripped out the lawn and put in raised beds instead. This is going to be the first year we really get the benefit of them and we are hoping for a bumper harvest – which these tools would really help with!
Use empty centre toilet rolls stnding on their ends for broad beans. One seed in each, and then when they rise up, they can be planted out with no damage to the roots.
would love to win this, just brought a house with a huge garden and need tools!
i’ve just moved into a new house that as a decent size garden our last house was basically a few paving slabs so unfortunately idon’t have any gardening equipment but would love some so i could spend more time outside in the garden with the kids
I have a lovely garden, but it does not get the attention that it deserves. With the tools provided, i could turn it into the garden of Eden
I am retiring this year and my garden needs a complete makeover so I would love these tools to help me get started,
Grow your own plants from cuttings
I would love to win the digging spade
I would love to win the rake, I have so many leaves in my garden to get rid of.
I love being in the garden and treat it as another room of the house. Sadly my two sons and two chickens haven’t treated it with the love and respect it deserves and so there’s plenty of work to be done. These tools would be a great incentive for me to roll up my sleeves and start reclaiming our lovely garden space. Thanks, Martin
use your own home grown compost…….its cheaper and you are helping the environment at the same time
love to wi there item because i love doing gardening
I HAVE A NEW GARDEN BUT HAVE NO TOOLS