Tag: 2023

saving native seeds, with tim johnson of native plant belief

WHEN I READ the opposite day that Native Plant Belief, the nonprofit plant conservation group in New England, had efficiently raised the cash to finish the endowment fund wanted to save lots of its area’s most imperiled native crops in a seed financial institution, it was like a silver lining sort of story. Sure, the…

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December 2023 — Monty Don

DECEMBER JOBSCHRISTMAS TREESThe hottest Christmas timber are,Norway Spruce (picea abies), The Nordman Fir (Abies nordmanniana,) or the Colorado Spruce (picea pungens). All three are superb, have particular virtues and may remaining for a protracted Christmas season if taken care of appropriately. All three might even develop in most gardens within the occasion that they are purchased…

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November 2023 — Monty Don

GATHER LEAVES TO MAKE LEAFMOULDEvery fallen leaf is potential leafmould and leafmould  which, in distinction to compost, takes no turning, mixing or knowledge to make, is yard gold.  So I’m obsessive about making leafmould, gathering as lots of the fallen leaves as potential, mowing them to cut them up after which stacking them in a vast…

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