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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 •

Lessons on climate change from Spain

Drought in Spain, a masia in Catalunya, plus a tomato rockstar from the Basque region and a hunt for Game of Thrones locations ....

May 29, 2024 •

5 take-away ideas from RHS Chelsea

Have you thought about installing rain chains? I share 5 ideas from RHS Chelsea including rain chains and edible meadows, plus I dip into the…

May 22, 2024 •

Coping with a hosepipe ban

Here are 7 top tips to help get you through the current drought especially in those areas where you can’t use your hose pipe

Aug 9, 2022 •

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