Gardening blog
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Late Summer Seed Sowing July 27, 2015 – Here is my run-down of what I’ll be sowing in the greenhouse over the next two or three weeks.
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The Plot (or rather, the lawn) Thickens! July 13, 2015 – We Brits do like a nice lawn. To get the best-looking one on the street, concentrate on thickness.
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Welcome to the late sow! June 15, 2015 – No, it’s not too late to start sowing – June is an excellent time to sow a whole host of flowers and crops.
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Ground Control for Major Toms! May 18, 2015 – Fewer and fewer of us these days have the time to worry about such pernickety things as counting the days between feeds.
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Magical mix to replace muck and manure! April 28, 2015 – Do you remember seeing your granddad on his allotment, shoveling bucket-loads of horse manure into his runner bean trenches?
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Now’s the Time to Slug it Out! April 23, 2015 – The slug and snail population is really prolific at the moment. A couple of wet years has caused an explosion in numbers!