As we approach the hottest part of the year, we are giving you five Summer Garden Tips to help make a better place to put the BBQ.

1. Regular cutting of the lawn is better off for your garden in the summer, do it little and often to thicken the grass and to help keep it healthy. Keep the grass a little longer in mid-summer when temperatures are at their hottest.
2. Annual flowers are the easiest plants to grow. Within 3 months of sowing, an annual will be in full bloom. Once they have flowered, dead-head them regularly which will spur the plant on to produce more flowers in a attempt to produce more seed.
3. Used coffee grounds, or egg shells are a great way to stop slugs and snails eating your seedlings. Make sure replenish them when it rains!
4. If you’re using a terracotta pot, it’s a smart idea to line it with plastic or an empty compost bag with holes punched in the bottom before planting as these types of pots absorb water.
5. Attracting birds to your garden will help to keep insect pests down. During summer many people forget the birds because they think there’s enough food around for them. If the ground hardens due to prolonged hot weather then birds will actually find it difficult to find food so if you supply some bird feed it will help them.

We hope this helps but if you need to a reliable, local professional to make your garden a nicer place to be in then look in our business directory for a Gardener 🙂

Our May books will be going through doors soon after.

We have the best prices and the biggest distribution of trades magazines in Maldon, Chelmsford, Witham, Tiptree, Burnham & surrounding villages.

You still have time to book your advert but you will have to be fast, space is going quick.

Call us on 01621 841744.

Our books are delivered through houses by our large team of trustworthy delivery staff.  We have a proven track record with many satisfied customers. We believe if we help make your advertising campaign a success then our business will be a success…Your business is our business.

• Local-Ad magazine has a great shelf life, people do keep this type of magazine until their next issue is delivered
• We retain over 80% of our advertisers month after month. This is because of the quality and distribution of the magazine – month after month you can expect regular sales leads
• Leaflets delivered if needed
• Local-Ad has been trading since 1998, so we know how to advertise businesses successfully
• Generous discounts for longer term advertisers

Manage your website from your smart phone.

We design our websites as entire content management systems. This gives you the power to change the content of your site, add pictures, news, blogs and generally keep everyone informed of what you do.

A Content Management System (CMS) is a tool that allows every day computer users to manage webpage and other web based content. A typical CMS enables website administrators to perform basic web authoring tasks such as formatting text, creating hyperlinks, and inserting images on web pages. In addition, CMS’s usually offer modules or components to manage specific content types such as news, events, job opportunities, photo galleries, etc.

All our sites are designed to respond to whatever device you are using to view it. So if you are looking on your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop the website will automatically resize to fit the view point while still looking great.

Website Price

Our standard price is £785 + VAT.

We also do a payment scheme so you can pay monthly so you can spread the cost over the first year. This consists of an initial £200 + VAT up front payment, then 11 x £60 + VAT payments.

Additional costs

After the first year there will be an annual charge of £50 + VAT per year for hosting renewal.

You will have to renew your domain name every 2 years. The prices are:

• .co.uk = £6.95 + VAT for 2 years
• .com = £21.98 + VAT for 2 years

Some of our example website:

• www.local-ad.co.uk
• www.wellbeingnowseminar.co.uk
• www.menshunfireworks.co.uk
• www.fireworkssouthwales.co.uk
• www.dandllandscapes.co.uk

We do have options for you to have a support package which will involve us doing updates and changes for you. These can be discussed in the design stage.

Give us a call or email us and we can discuss your requirements now.