Archive - Climate Change Garden

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 •

Growing in sand

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

Oct 9 •

New pests, more rain and climate stats

We’ve had more than enough rain in September.

Oct 2 •

September 2024

A quartet of potagers part 2

The potagers at Villandry and Yeo Valley Organic Garden

Sep 25 •

A visit to an inspiring RHS partner garden in France

7 take away ideas from Les Jardins du Prieuré Notre-Dame d’Orsan

Sep 19 •

A quartet of potagers, some weird edibles and a numbing flower

Sep 18 •

Roots, structural complexity in the garden and worries about the monarch butterfly

A couple of weeks ago I attended a brilliant symposium which has filled my mind with lots of ideas for the future.

Sep 11 •

August 2024

On chillis and tomatoes - a visit to an inspirational seed producer

You may have seen from my recent posts that I was visiting Sea Spring Seeds on the Jurassic Coast, home of the Dorset Naga chilli. Needless to say there…

Aug 29 •

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 •

Tomato swarms and flocks plus cover crops

Some innovative tomato varieties and how to create you own swarm, flock or population, tomato blight and some amazing cover crops.

Aug 14 •

Its all about tomatoes .... and some water harvesting

This week I give an update on the tomatoes, highlight a couple of fab tomato & chilli events and remind you about water butts.

Aug 7 •

July 2024

On watering, comfrey feeds, cabbage white butterflies and a caterpillar that’s munching my tomatoes.

I hope you and your gardens are coping with the heat.

Jul 31 •

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