Your Top Tips

At Frosts we believe in sharing our experience and knowledge of plants. We are now giving you the chance to share your knowledge with other gardening lovers and we will also be rewarding the best gardening tip each month with £25 worth of Frosts vouchers!* All you need to do is fill in your name, email address and your top gardening tips on the link below.

Each month we will list a selection of your gardening tips on this page as well as the highlighted monthly best tip!

Please click here to upload your top Gardening tips!

*Winners will be notified by email. Winners need to collect the £25 Frosts vouchers from their nearest  Frosts Garden Centre.

February's - Best Of The Rest

Helen Griffith - "An old jam jar and lid is great for keeping garden string in. Just punch a hole in the lid and feed the string through to keep it tangle free."

Valerie O'Donovan - "Eggshells ground finely may be used not only as a fertilser but also as a slug deterrent."

Marie Price - "Place a rubber ball on the surface of a fish pond to prevent it freezing over"

Claire Ring - "Sow plenty of sweet pea seeds every spring - some for cutting for your home because of the delicious scent (look carefully at the packets for scent levels) and some to attract bees to pollinate your runner beans for a good crop!"

January's - Best Of The Rest

Ann Kalmus - "Soak old egg cartons in tap water, squeeze out and add to your compost bin"

Ann Kalmus - "For fun plant a little marrow plant at the foot of a tree and train it up, use sticky garden tape to secure it in place - I grew one marrow about six feet up! A bonus is that slugs don't climb trees!"

Angela Burton - "Plant broad and runner beans in old toilet roll holders, and when large enough plant straight outside, and the cardboard juat rots away, no need to disturb the root"

Amanda Brompton - "I use colourful lids from fabric conditioner bottles as cane toppers. They look great and bring abit of colour to a drab winter garden"

Previous Winners

Lisa Faulkner - "I have just planted some hanging baskets and have placed plastic saucers in the base to stop water running straight out!"

Dawn Rudman - "Use old or new plastic guttering to plant up a salad garden to save space, as these can be put anywhere in the garden"

Jackie Theaker - " Put yellow insulation tape round the handles of your trowel, secateurs, and hand fork. They will be much easier to amongst your plants and will not get left out in the rain or accidentally composted!"

Joy McKie - "Remember to trim off the tendrils of sweetpeas to prevent them entwining the flower stalks. This will give long straight stems for cut flowers. Feed with a high potash fertiliser to encourage flowering and keep picking flowers so they keep producing more"

Paul Wakley - "I hang fat balls from trellis where my climbing roses are trained, The birds are attracted to them and also eat greenfly from the roses"

Chris Fellows - "I've planted my runner beans in old toilet roll centres! They can go straight into the ground as the cardboard will rot. This tip can also be applied to peas too"