Emma Cooper

If you want to add a bit more structure to your kitchen garden this year, have a look at Harrod Horticultural who are offering 10% off all of their timber raised beds until the end of March if you use the coupon code BEDS10 when you checkout.

→ Save 10% on wooden raised beds

Moo.com have brought out a new product – deluxe ‘Luxe’ business cards, printed on high quality paper. And they have an introductory offer – free shipping on all Luxe orders throughout February, if you use the coupon code LUXEMOO when you checkout.

→ Free shipping on Luxe Moo cards

Suttons have added a highly ornamental new fruit bush to their catalogue for the new season – the ‘Fourberry Black Gem’. A specially-selected form of golden currant (Ribes aureum), the fourberry has pretty yellow flowers, a delicate scent and eye-catching autumn foliage as well as producing bumper crops of currants. And they’re not only fully-hardy, but pretty drought tolerant as well!

→ Fourberry Black Gem

GardeningExpress currently have blueberry plants on offer – buy 3 plants for just £16.47, which is better than half price (previously £34.95, so you save £18.48)

→ Gardening Express blueberry plants

Using the discount code SEED10 saves you 10% on all seed orders at vegetableseeds.net. You can use it on every single order, and share it with your friends :)

→ Buy vegetable seeds

Suttons have added Peach Peche de Vigne (Prunus persica) to their fruit tree range – it’s an ancient variety of peach, a select form of the very sweet wild peach that is common in the vineyards of the Haute Savoie. With deep, raspberry-rose skin that is heavily furred, and flesh stained a deep red almost all the way to the pit, this peach will make quite a stir in the fruit bowl. And on top of all that it’s deliciously sweet and intensely perfumed, and currently on sale for £29.99

→ Peach Peche de Vigne (Prunus persica)

Victoriana Nursery Gardens is a family-run nursery supplying seeds and plants via mail order (you can also visit, if you’re in the area :). They sell lots of interesting edibles as well as ornamental and aquatic plants. If you shop online at Victoriana via any of the links in the sites (I use them myself, so they’re mentioned in various blog posts) then you’ll save 10% – the discount is applied automatically as soon as an item is added to your basket.

→ Victoriana Nursery Gardens

For the first part of my career I worked for other people, and as an employee I never had to worry about balancing the books. Now that I am a freelance writer, I have to take care of that aspect of the business myself – and to begin with I got bogged down in the finances. Eventually I went looking for book keeping software that would simplify my life and work on a Mac. I came across Kashflow, which is online accounting software that works on any operating system, and keeps things really straightforward. I have been using it ever since! If you sign up via my referral link below then you’ll have a 60-day free trial to see whether Kashflow works for you, and if you choose to continue your subscription then you’ll save £1 every month for as long as you use their service (and, trust me, the software pays for itself in saved time and stress!).

→ Emma's Kashflow link

Pete and I have been using Lovefilm as our DVD rental service for years. We started using Lovefilm so that we would buy fewer DVDs – and it has saved us a small fortune, as well as keeping down the clutter! It’s an easy service to use – create a wish list of films you’d like to watch, and they send them to you. Keep them as long as you like, then send them back in the prepaid envelopes and they will send out your next title. All you ever pay is the monthly fee for the package you choose. If you sign up via my referral link below then you can get a whole month free trial (the standard free trial is two weeks) to see whether Lovefilm is right for you. If you’re looking for great gardening films then try searching for Grow Your Own (about allotments) and Greenfingers (about prison gardening). You can also rent television series such as Grow Your Own Drugs, The Victorian Kitchen Garden and Geoff Hamilton’s The Ornamental Kitchen Garden.

→ Emma's Lovefilm link

I have just ordered myself a fresh set of personalized business cards from Moo.com. If you like taking photos of your garden then you can share them with friends via business cards, greetings cards and stickers printed for you at Moo.com – you choose the photos and the product and they do the rest for you! If you order a set of business cards you can have all of them printed with the same picture, or make every one different; they are very eye-catching! If you’re new to Moo.com then you can save 10% on your first order if you follow my referral link below.

→ Emma's Moo.com link