The Basics of Organic Gardening & Tips on Sustainability
Organic gardening and organic growing mean to team up and work alongside natural systems and cycles in your garden. In this scenario, there is very little use of manufactured chemical…
Building Resilience in our Gardens
Building Resilience in our Gardens: Looking Backwards to See the Way Forward Guest blog: in an extract from her new book, The Climate Change Garden, author Kim Stoddart explains how learning…
Helping Hands – advice and information
I have just returned from The Edible Garden Show (TEGS) at Stoneleigh Park, right in the heart of the Midlands, but with visitors travelling from near and far. The first…
Plans and Dreams
Christmas festivities are over; the New Year approaches – almost a time in limbo, but perfect for making plans, allowing oneself to dream. I write so often about planning that…
Return to the wilderness!
After three weeks away working on the continent, I could not really believe the transformation that had taken place in the garden. Not so much weeds, but the sheer entanglement…
Summer Reading
The long light evenings of Summer always seem to me to be a good time to catch up on reading. What better opportunity is there when gardening tasks are done…
End of month miscellany
With the mild weather we’ve had this January, I should have been out in the garden, titivating the potager and beginning yet another reclamation project of areas that escaped me…