How not to stake a tree
I’ve been working on an interesting little project lately in Dorset, looking after a newly-designed garden which is learning to …
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How to make a compost bin #2
(You can find part 1 here) So – now you’ve got the upright bits: what’s next? Well, time to bolt …
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 …
Learning from the master
This week I made something of a pilgrimage, to the garden of John Brookes OBE at Denmans in Sussex. I …
A very capable man
Think of the English countryside, and it’s my guess it’ll be pretty green. There will be fields, and hedgerows, and picturesque …
October garden: Greenhouses and fruit garden
The slow dying of the greenhouses is the swansong of my year. They’re the last to go: long after the …
Of triumph and tribulations
The other day, very quietly and without fuss, I triumphed. This is the Bible Garden, formerly a patch of scruffy …
This week in the garden…
…I was digging out stumps. Big stumps: massive ones, in fact. The kind that make you have fantasies about acquiring …
Sally Nex 