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The Blackberry Tales 14 - A tale of bear and bunny

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Book Reviews: Great British Gardeners by Vanessa Berridge and The Magic of Terry Pratchett by Marc Burrows

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Tree Following April 2021 - press pause

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Book Review: The Windowsill Gardener by Liz Marvin and Gardening to Eat by Becky Dickinson

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Garden Media Guild Blog of the Year 2019

Alison Levey: I have been writing about my garden on ‘The BlackberryGarden’ blog since 2011. I am an amateur and somewhat obsessed gardener and I am based in Leicester. I writes my own garden and what inspires me to garden; gardens I have visited, plant fairs and garden shows. I also review garden related books and products. The Blackberry Garden is not a ‘how to’ blog, the aim is to talk more about the enjoyment of gardening and it is read by people who garden and people who do not, all readers and followers are very welcome.

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A morning of No Dig Gardening with Charles Dowding

I received an invitation to visit Charles Dowding's garden near Shepton Mallet to find out more about 'No Dig' vegetable growing and to learn about his new book ' Charles Dowding's No dig gardening Course 1 ' I am going to whisper very quietly that I try my hardest not to dig anyway, which actually made the reason to go even more acute as I was fascinated to see what he had to say. and when I say fascinated, I mean I was prepared and did drive for three hours to get there and back in a day. I have not done a lot of driving in the last five months so this felt like quite a challenge, but I really wanted to go. The garden is not huge, around a third of an acre, and it is pretty much all turned over to growing vegetables. It is used as a trial garden so some borders are dig and some no dig so that Charles can test his theories. It all looked immaculate and due to the system Charles uses, he does not spend lots of time weeding. Let's just say that 'mu

Book Review: Rewild your garden by Frances Tophill

Regular readers will know that I have what I call 'The Wild Garden' at the top of my garden. It is about a quarter of the garden space in total and I have always been very glad to have made the decision to let it grow as it pleases. I mow paths through it, I do control some of the taller nettles but generally it does what it likes. When I was asked if I wanted to review Rewild Your Garden by Frances Tophill I said yes immediately. It is definitely something I am very interested in. I have to be clear I have not paid for this book, but I have not been paid to write this review, no one is approving the content and my words and opinions remain, as ever, my own. This is a fantastic book. It is not huge but also not small. It is a good size to pick up and put down easily. It is also packed full of information. The chapters and sections are not long but are full of what you need to know so you very quickly get what you need. This book is concise, over-wordy and does not ove

Product Review - Gro-Sure Smart Ground Cover

I was asked a few weeks ago if I wanted to trial some Gro-Smart Ground Cover, which is made by Westland. I hesitated a little before agreeing as I am not someone who generally mulches areas of the garden. One look at my weed population will confirm this but I do like to have self-seeders and mulches will keep them controlled as well as the weeds. After some thought I realised that it could be really useful in my vegetable borders where I do want to restrict self-seeders from colonising. A short time later a bag duly arrived. The first thing I noticed is that it is incredibly light. I braced myself to lift the bag and it was really easy to lift. Then I set to spreading it out where I am growing beans this year. I am not growing a lot of veg this year but nothing beats the taste of freshly picked french beans. I spread it so it was a few centimetres thick as the instructions stated. I made sure the bed was well weeded and I also picked a day after we had had quite a lot of

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