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Country & Rural Garden News (13)Newspapers (6)Other Gardening News (A-J) (29)Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)'You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think' - Dorothy Parker 2 Jan 09 New year's resolution 2009 ... ...Turn this lethal combo of badly installed and maintained decking and a tumbledown shed with an asbestos roof into a delightful garden office and potting shed alongisde a beautiful seating area replete with timber raised beds... 2 Jan 09 The New Yorker this ain't, but we do have a caption contest What better way to start 2009 than with a caption competition? What is the slug saying to the snail, or vice versa, in the pic below?* Keep it clean, or at least legal, please. Writer of the best (as judged by me) caption posted in the next seven days gets whatever flotsam and jetsam is lying around my desk at work right now - probably a book on giant marrows, or somesuch... 18 Dec 08 The Alwych: the garden writer's notebook of choice? My sister always has a laugh at my expense at my obsesssion with notebooks, which dates back to childhood. But now - ha! - notebooks are deeply cool, and fellow notebook obsessives blog about the best pads and pens they've tried... 7 Dec 08 Composting, credit-crunch style The Garden Monkey recently pointed the finger at me for having more money than sense for including a bronze hherb sickle costing £55 in Weekend's Christmas gift guide. No offence taken, of course: I've got a well-documented love of Implementations' bronze tools... 27 Nov 08 Lav break loser: Horticultural shortlisted for GMG blog award Without wishing to turn my life ? and indeed this blog - into a poor, unfunny approximation of Seinfeld, I have to share what happened at the Garden Media Guild awards last week. Now, I?d entered this blog for the digital media award, and I am not quite so sieve-headed as to have forgotten that fact... 18 Nov 08 The slow gardening movement I can't remember who it was I spoke to (by which I probably mean "had an email exchange with") recently about "slow gardening" - maybe it was fellow blogger Allan Shepherd - but it's something I am dwelling on at the moment... 14 Oct 08 Coke, flames and big fat toads In her Thrifty Gardener book, Alys Fowler recommends using Coca-Cola for killing off weeds in pavement cracks. Now, I have a particularly evil dandelion nestled in a crack outside my front door, so I bought some cola and applied it liberally... 25 Sep 08 Nerine discovery There's not a lot by way of exciting plants in my new garden, but I did thrill at the sight of a patch of the lovely autumn bulb Nerine bowdenii which have come up in one of the raised beds, partially covered by a rather rampant rosemary (try saying that after a few pints)... 23 Sep 08 Peter Piper would be having a field day If there's one thing I am sure of, it's that readers of this blog know way more than I do. So I'm asking, as I sometimes do, for help for a couple of readers who want to identify mystery plants.First, there's Sue with her packet of supposed mini bell mixed pepper plants, which when sown ended up looking like this: Not peppers, to be sure, but what are they? Weeds or something else?Then there's Anna, who definitely has a pepper, but which one? She writes: "this is a pepper plant that my friend's mom grows every year... 22 Sep 08 First view: my new garden Ignore the washing line in the corner: this is the new garden. Actually it looks a bit better here than in real life. That's the pear tree in the corner - a Williams I think. The path has got to go because it's horrible and rubbly, and the border on the left is way too narrow...
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