Dandelions, Brussels sprouts and new potatoes

Dandelions, Brussels sprouts and new potatoes



Howdy there to you all and I hope you’ve had an important gardening week! I’m feeling the panic rising now as Might strides onwards and there nonetheless seedlings un-pricked-out, seeds unsown and pots unfilled. However, the calming voice in my head tells me, there’s nonetheless time. Spring stays to be with us, it’s cow parsley season all through the hedgerows and all is correctly with the world.

English bluebells in my rewilded strip

I hope your lawns are bursting with flowers too now that No Mow Might might be upon us: on week’s premium content material materials I’ve been speaking about cope with a month-to-month mowing routine to carry your yard alive with biodiversity.

No Mow Anytime

Sally Nex

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Might 3

Shhh… don’t inform anybody. I’ve merely mowed my yard. This makes me truly really feel a naughty, on account of it’s No Mow Might and all people seems to be packing away their lawnmowers until June to assist the bees and butterflies. This terribly worthwhile initiative, based by botanist Dr Trevor Dines for the conservation charity P…

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There be, sadly, quite a few misinformation spherical on the subject of No Mow Might: throughout the event you’re on Twitter recurrently you’ll have seen individuals discouraging it, saying it merely lures in wildlife solely to destroy it while you do come to mow as quickly as additional.

Appropriately which might be true throughout the event you’re doing a full rewild – letting your grass develop for a complete yr ahead of chopping it as soon as – and I am going to definitely be speaking about how to do that successfully on this week’s premium content material materials supplies (sneak peek: it’s not as hands-off as you suppose).

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Howdy there to you all and I hope you’ve had an important gardening week! I’m feeling the panic rising now as Might strides ever onwards and there are nonetheless seedlings un-pricked-out, seeds unsown and pots unfilled. However, the calming voice in my head tells me, there’s nonetheless time. Spring stays…