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December 20, 2017

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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

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

How we can help support closed nurseries, gardens and gardeners

Never has the word 'unprecedented' been used so much as it is at the moment. We are living in the strangest and darkest times for decades. Public places including gardens are closed, no gatherings of more than two people are allowed and non-essential businesses are closed. We have to do this, we know that we must keep safe from Covid-19 but we also know that millions of people from every part of life have lost their livelihood overnight. I thought I would gather a few things together that will give support to struggling gardeners and horticultural based businesses and also help us who are social distancing and self-isolating feel a bit less distant and isolated. The charity https://perennial.org.uk/ has been supporting horticultural workers for 180 years. As I write this their freephone helpline is working as usual and they are provide free and confidential support to anyone who has worked in or is working in the horticultural industry in the UK. They also provide

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