Healthy soil is important
Victoria Plum The compostable tubs of Ronaldo ice cream (made in Norwich) have decayed well in my compost bin.
Up the Garden Path
In search of orchids
Robin McDonald gave us a talk on various gardens she had visited in her search for orchids.
Gardening club’s first ‘live’ meeting after lockdown
Reepham gardening club held its first “live” meeting this month when about 30 masked members met, suitably spaced out.
Don’t frighten my frogs!
With the rank growth of everything this year, parts of my garden truly resemble a jungle.
Biodiversity in the garden is in our hands
Has anyone had seen aphids this year because they certainly have been conspicuous by their absence in my garden?
How to be a ‘citizen scientist’ in your garden
Scientists can have access to far more extensive information than they could ever gather for themselves.
Let’s learn to love wasps this summer
I regret that I have very few wasp photos to show you in my collection.
‘No-dig’ gardening explained
The top two inches of soil are full of life and the most crucial.
Waste not, want not: old compression stockings make useful plant ties
I have an endless supply of used plastic saucers, lids and supermarket trays to put under plants and seedlings in…
The gardener’s dilemma: to clear or not to clear
How to be brutal with the clearing of last year’s explosion of foliage and plant life.