How to make a compost bin #1
The above set-up is all you will ever need by way of composting. Three bins is the nirvana of perfect …
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Putting Biochar through its paces
I’m mostly a peat-free gardener: life’s too short and the world too precious to ruin a peat bog for beans …
This month in the garden…
It’s about this time of year I start to resist writing anything about seasons, mists or mellow fruitfulness for fear …
Splitting the difference
Bother. My tomatoes have gone and split on me. This, of course, is my own silly fault. Tomatoes split for …
Herby adventures
I have been planting herbs. More to the point, I have been experimenting with herb containers: a gardening marriage made …
A new acquaintance
The thing I love most about gardening is that no matter how long you’ve been doing it, even if you’ve …
This month in the garden…
Here’s a thing. I like September. August is either sweaty or disappointingly rainy (the former, this year); and there’s not …
Pick of the month: Cucamelon
Well. These are very curious little things. Cucamelons are the latest Big Thing in veg growing: everyone seems to have …
Cosmos at Wisley
The trials fields, at the back of Battleston Hill at RHS Wisley in Surrey, are easy to miss. You have to …
Wordless Wednesday: Red banana
Ensete ventricosum: as seen at Woolbeding Gardens, Sussex
Sally Nex 