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Create a buzz – fill your garden with bee-friendly spring plants

Some of my favourite bee friendly spring flowering plants, helping bumble bee survival and how to become a BeeWalker

Mar 5 •

Urban front gardens and flooding

Front gardens, hard landscaping, water butts and flooding

Nov 20, 2024 •

A love of salvias

Growing up, salvias meant those garish red bedding plants (Salvia splendens) but decades later I have come to love this genus of flowers for its…

Aug 21, 2024 •

Walls as climate tools

A look at the different types of walls, how they help in climate resilience and the role of walls in growing fruit

May 12 •

Allotments, a garden show, bird feeders and teasels

There are lots of photos this week, with ideas from my visit to a garden show and an allotment site, growing veg in small spaces, bird feeders and…

May 7 •

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Sow now to feed the birds in winter

Sowing annual plants that produce lots of seed is an easy way to provide winter food for seed eating birds, avoiding the need to use bird feeders.

Apr 30 •

Sounds of spring, blossom, and sowing flowers for bees

Spring in the garden, attracting pollinators, creating an easy flowerbed for bees and my sand experiment

Apr 25 •

A nature inspired garden, making compost and coping with ground elder

This week I’m writing about a wonderful garden nestled by a river in the Brecon Beacons in Wales. If I mention its a RHS Partner garden, you will…

Apr 18 •

Make your own potting composts and a seed sowing experiment

Do you buy bags of potting compost / mixes? Why not make your own from readily available ingredients? And do you use a commercial seed sowing compost…

Apr 9 •

Peat, climate change, and mushrooms

Summer in spring, the importance of protecting the world's peatlands to combat climate change and why we should avoid spent mushroom compost

Apr 3 •

A gut health challenge: Eating 30 home-grown plant foods a week

Do you have a healthy gut microbiome? Do you grow enough to eat 30 home-grown plant foods a week? Plus planning ahead for next year's hungry gap and a…

Mar 27 •

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Allotments, a garden show, bird feeders and teasels

There are lots of photos this week, with ideas from my visit to a garden show and an allotment site, growing veg in small spaces, bird feeders and…

May 7 •

A gut health challenge: Eating 30 home-grown plant foods a week

Do you have a healthy gut microbiome? Do you grow enough to eat 30 home-grown plant foods a week? Plus planning ahead for next year's hungry gap and a…

Mar 27 •

Brambles, bindweed and overgrown veg plots

As we emerge from winter and look at our veg plots, it’s clear that the weeds haven’t been resting! This week, I think about bramble and bindweed, and…

Mar 13 •

How fermentation can boost soil health

Bokashi - how fermenting your kitchen waste can improve soil health, reduce your carbon footprint and help you to recycle more of your waste

Mar 11 •

Weather, population seeds and what to do with an apple glut

How can a decrease in a plant pathogen cause more drought? Why are population seeds more resilient? How do you make apple cider vinegar from peelings…

Jan 8 •

water

Soil and the role of dipping ponds in the garden

World Soil day, how dipping ponds can harvest water, prevent flooding and influence the microclimate, and one way that plants communicate with fungi

Dec 4, 2024 •

Storm Bert, coping with a flooded garden and natural flood management

The calm after the storm

Nov 25, 2024 •

Urban front gardens and flooding

Front gardens, hard landscaping, water butts and flooding

Nov 20, 2024 •

Flood prevention - slow water

Here in the UK, its Flood Prevention Week, and just to ram home the message, we've had a pretty wet week. Here are my 5 tips to creating a flood…

Oct 16, 2024 •

Growing in sand

Peter Korn at the Beth Chatto Symposium, quarries, Chatto Wood and creating an experimental raised sand bed

Oct 9, 2024 •

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How fermentation can boost soil health

Bokashi - how fermenting your kitchen waste can improve soil health, reduce your carbon footprint and help you to recycle more of your waste

Mar 11 •

This week's post is all about the lack of genetic diversity in many of our gardens and why we need to address this in order to create a more…

Feb 19 •

Roses and a changing climate

Resilience 4 Roses, climate change, pests & disease, treating black spot and the role of the phyllosphere

Feb 7 •

Fallen giants, harvesting water and kitchen gardens

This week's post is a bumper edition! We’ll have a sneak peek at what’s on the horizon for 2025, share a clever tip for harvesting water, and delve into…

Jan 1 •

The Chill Factor

Resilience #2 Dec 2024 Our increasingly mild winters are making me rethink my choice of fruit trees and soft fruits

Dec 1, 2024 •

gardening

A nature inspired garden, making compost and coping with ground elder

This week I’m writing about a wonderful garden nestled by a river in the Brecon Beacons in Wales. If I mention its a RHS Partner garden, you will…

Apr 18 •

Make your own potting composts and a seed sowing experiment

Do you buy bags of potting compost / mixes? Why not make your own from readily available ingredients? And do you use a commercial seed sowing compost…

Apr 9 •

Peat, climate change, and mushrooms

Summer in spring, the importance of protecting the world's peatlands to combat climate change and why we should avoid spent mushroom compost

Apr 3 •

Spring, snowdrops, and saved seed

As we look forward to a new growing season, I look back on the snowdrop season, and think about saved seed and its genetic diversity, plus I delve into…

Feb 26 •

This week's post is all about the lack of genetic diversity in many of our gardens and why we need to address this in order to create a more…

Feb 19 •

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