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The garden that changed the way I grow veg

How Rosemary Verey’s potager taught me that a vegetable garden can be just as beautiful as it is productive.

Jul 18 •

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 •

Gardening is good and does good

This week I peruse the Royal Horticultural Society's State of Gardening Report 2025, pull out a few highlights and return to the topic of front gardens…

Nov 11 •

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Urban front gardens and flooding

Nov 20, 2024 • Sally Morgan

Keyhole gardening, push/pull control of pests and growing amaranthus

Jan 22 • Sally Morgan

Make your own potting composts and a seed sowing experiment

Apr 9 • Sally Morgan

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

Mar 27 • Sally Morgan

Recent posts

Birch Farm - making plant feeds, bokashi and polycultures

This month's Resilience post is on my visit to Birch Farm in Devon where I joined a course led by Josh Sparkes to learn more soil amendments, making…

Nov 2 •

Hedgerow abundance

Our hedgerows are looking super at the moment, full of colour and fruits. Its the ideal time to carry out some hedgerow surveys and to try dating them.

Oct 26 •

Looking back on a hot, dry summer

This week I list some of my successes and some of the not so successful aspects of the summer garden, plus news of my garden appearing on Gardener's…

Oct 17 •

Resilience 12: Spring flowering bulbs, pollinators, soil health and pesticides

Recent research has highlighted the risk to pollinators and soil health from the sale of flower bulbs laced with pesticides. In this article I delve…

Oct 6 •

A garden update

This week in the garden with salvias (and how to propagate them), a false autumn, hedgerow food for wildlife and hedge trimming

Sep 29 •

Why do we garden?

This week I'm writing about the Yeo Valley Organic Garden Festival in the Chew Valley just south of Bristol and covering some of the panel discussions

Sep 21 •

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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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Hedgerow abundance

Our hedgerows are looking super at the moment, full of colour and fruits. Its the ideal time to carry out some hedgerow surveys and to try dating them.

Oct 26 •

Puglia’s rich traditions & fragile future: Culture, cuisine, and olives under threat

Last month, I visited Puglia to look at olives and learn how they are being affected by disease and climate change

Jun 5 •

Some climate-resilient edibles from the coast

As climate change increases the risk of coastal flooding, interest is growing in salt tolerant crops. I look at some of the salt tolerant edibles you…

May 30 •

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 •

gardening

Looking back on a hot, dry summer

This week I list some of my successes and some of the not so successful aspects of the summer garden, plus news of my garden appearing on Gardener's…

Oct 17 •

A garden update

This week in the garden with salvias (and how to propagate them), a false autumn, hedgerow food for wildlife and hedge trimming

Sep 29 •

Two inspiring Dublin gardens, a quick plant quiz… and a greenhouse zombie?!

Two inspirational gardens in Dublin, a short edimental plant quiz and if you scroll to the end you can read about the zombie in my greenhouse!

Aug 18 •

RHS Chelsea 2025 - my favourite bits

I spent the day at RHS Chelsea wandering round, taking photos and generally looking for ideas to take away, of which there were plenty. And one garden…

May 21 •

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 •

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