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5 Tried and Tested Ways To Improve Your New Build Garden

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New build gardens can be tricky to get right. They are notoriously known for being small, lifeless and in very poor condition, I should know, I’ve been there. We spent years dealing with low-quality soil if you can even call it that – it was mostly made up of bricks, stones, plastic pieces, glass and metal, basically whatever had been used on the building site that was then covered over. This led to failed plants and flowers, far too much money being spent and many frustrations. As a novice gardener, I had to learn as I went so I now want to be able to give a little bit of advice and a few tips to help you improve your own new build garden before you fall into the fails that we did.

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