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Bindweed, winter salads and a bad case of FOMO
Hello! Well it’s been a funny old week. At least for me: I expect – indeed sincerely hope – yours has been blissfully normal and trouble-free, dotted…
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The easy way to save tomato seed
Sometimes, we gardeners make things a tad more complicated and difficult than we need to. We set ourselves impossible tasks: perfectly-mown lawns…
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Bramble bashing, giant tomatoes and rampant slugs
I am in Cornwall this weekend. My mother has moved house, which means I, as the gardener in the family, have another garden in my life. Well, I say…
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Rotating crops: don't bother
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A walk through living prehistory
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Plastic: your plants are better without
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Chelsea Flower Show, new potatoes and strawberries on the way
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The wilder way
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Problem focus: Powdery mildew
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The scythe: a very 21st century gardening tool
Start talking about scythes and people tend to come over all misty-eyed. I bet you’re already thinking peasants in cornfields, pink-cheeked milkmaids…
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Happy new year, blighty tomato leaves and self-seeding parsley
Hello! And welcome to September. It’s meteorological autumn. And there’s a heatwave on. Every day, it seems, we gardeners are brought face to face with…
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Gardening your rewilded patch
Small-scale rewilding is gardening, whatever the naysayers tell you. And right now it’s high maintenance season in my little rewilded strip, so I’m…
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Problem focus: Tomato troubles
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Reasons to be cheerful, lots of cooking, and apples galore
Hello! I hope all is growing well in your garden: mine is positively jungle-like now what with the steady rain interspersed with bouts of blazing hot…
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Totally Tomatoes August update: All about dat taste
I love it when a plan comes together. I am swamped by tomatoes of every shape, size and colour: from fat ribbed Costoluto beefsteaks to tiny sweet…
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