HeyJaredGardening on the Brain with Nicola Morgan
A love letter to our gardens, with science, poetry, insights, ideas, recipes. I show you how gardening supercharges your mind, brain and body.
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The poet, the gardener and the pharmacy (opens the original)
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Gardening to survive (opens the original)
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Let’s be honest: gardening is a hobby, for me and most of you. It’s not my job and it’s not life or death. Even growing things to eat is an activity which falls somewhere between enjoyable challenge and side-hustle. Yes, I get immense pleasure from doing it and from harvesting what I can. Yes, it helps me be healthy, mentally and physically. No, I don’t like to imagine life without it.But it would be stretching a point to say that my life depends on it. My pleasure does, but not my life.But what
Gardening in a drought (opens the original)
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This year has been my first adult experience of a hosepipe ban. Well, I lived in Scotland for most of my adult life, so… And it has been difficult to handle, what with how much I love my garden and bearing in mind that my veg plot is uphill and has no water source other than a hose from my mains tap, which I obviously now can’t use.So, I’ve spent quite a lot of headspace trying to solve the problem. I’ve found some answers but I’m not quite there yet. Perhaps you can add to my suggestions?Be rut
Hero plant: bergamot (monarda didyma) (opens the original)
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July, a hosepipe ban, sticky temperatures which back in May we thought we yearned for, and all my bergamot plants are absolutely thriving. So it feels like the right time to tell you why they are my second favourite plant.Let’s admire their unruly loveliness.First up, Cambridge Scarlet:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ho7x!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcba6c
Two things my garden has just taught me (opens the original)
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Last week, I treated you rudely. I wrote about how gardens reveal things about their gardeners but I left with a cliff-hanger: what do two recent disasters say about me and how will I respond?Today, I bring you the answers.If you want to read the first post first, which would be entirely sensible, it’s here:My two recent disasters(Trigger warning: if you have suffered the loss of your favourite plants, this may distress you.)I’ve had to destroy at least half my tomato plants. Painful.Some (and p
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