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Forget April’s showers - where are May’s flowers?
Am I the only novice flower gardener who got caught out by April’s cold snap and forgot to plant anything? I should be honest with you. When it comes to allotments, I’m definitely of the Jenny-Come-Lately, fairweather variety of gardener.
Essential tips for October gardening
Do you ever look at those jobs-for-this-month gardening calendars and think – hmmm, 800 things to do, maybe I’ll leave it for now?
Well we do. Because between lifting your tubers, sowing green manures and sprucing up the cold frame, there seem to be enough garden jobs to last you well into the spring.
Mulch ado about nothing
Last week’s story about Torbay’s solar compacting bin started us thinking about waste and what happens to it. Never afraid to go digging around in rubbish, we found some government statistics showing exactly what we throw away.
