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Down to earth advice on growing salad, herbs & veg on balconies, patios & yards. Exploring the multi-dimensional benefits: flavour, nature, wellbeing, joy.. and high yields!
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September in the Container Garden (opens the original)
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With the writing of my new book nearly finished, I’m aiming to return to posting twice a month here on Substack. One post will round up what I’m sowing, learning, and eating from the container garden as well recent reading and reflections (like this one); the other will either be a podcast episode or will focus on a particular plant or theme related to container growing and its wider benefits. This month, I’m sharing what I’m sowing now, why fresh seed matters, a new perennial salad plant, my cu
Seed Saving Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect—with Catherine Howell (opens the original)
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As our climate changes and growing conditions become more challenging, seed diversity and seed saving are becoming increasingly vital to our future. Put bluntly, without seeds, we can’t grow food.So I was delighted to be joined by Catherine Howell, from the Seed Sovereignty Programme, to learn more about how those of us who grow in small spaces can support seed diversity - and even save some of our own seeds (timecodes below).I was particularly struck by the joy Catherine has witnessed when peop
Growing Fruit in Pots: Lessons from a Blackberry, Mulberry and Apple (opens the original)
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Growing fruit in containers has taught me that, more than almost anything else I grow, fruit rewards patience. Some fruit bushes and trees will give you a good harvest within a year or two, others can take four or five years plus. But, once established, many will give you great pleasure for ten years or more - and are much less work than growing annual vegetables. One of the most reliable fruits in my front yard is a thornless blackberry, Loch Tay. I bought it in 2013, planted it in a large 100
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