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January 2024 — Monty Don

This yard and all who sail in her is floating into 2024 – nearly actually. It has barely stopped raining for the sooner three months and as I write this the fields so far as the attention can see are beneath water as is sections of the yard .That is…

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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…

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August 2023 — Monty Don

TAKE CUTTINGSAs August progresses semi ripe cuttings taken from present season’s wooden that has began to harden off  are more and more obtainable and in addition to more and more weak to root shortly. Regularly select healthful, sturdy, straight  progress free from any flowers or flower buds. Upon getting taken provides…

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June 2023 — Monty Don

Grass CuttingBy June 1,000,000 gardens are ceaselessly buzzing – and at occasions unpleasantly roaring – with the sound of motor- mowers sustaining the grass trim and beneath administration. Nonetheless at Longmeadow we limit this to paths and try to let as relatively so much grass as potential develop extended and…

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January 2023 — Monty Don

The Vegetable GardenThe spring salad crops are sown all through the primary week of January. I frequently use pure seed the place potential. These will embody Rocket, Mizuna, Little Gem and Tom Thumb lettuce and curly endive. This looks like a constructive, inventive approach to begin the 12 months. It…

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