This year I had a repeat of a problem with my strawberries – woodlice. I’d go to pick them, and find many with a little spherical hole near the top, each hole containing one or more tiny woodlice. It was as if I were running a woodlouse kindergarten! It must have affected about a third […]
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Our show secretary reports as follows:- “Despite that national event and a few other local ones we had a reasonable attendance of entrants and visitors. The greatest difference, numerically and decoratively, was the additional 114 entrants with 132 exhibits from local school displays. Their displays really did fill the viewers with wonder, and
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Would you like to help researchers at the University of Sheffield understand the sustainability of allotment gardening? Would you be willing to keep an allotment diary for a year? The picture below shows the sort of information they’re after. If you are interested, or you’d like to find out more, please contact Miriam at mcdobson1@shef.ac.uk.
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The RHS has just published a report called “Gardening in a Changing Climate”, in which it brings together the latest scientific evidence and sets out the likely implications for gardeners. Climate change is already happening, affecting weather patterns around the globe. 2016 was the hottest year on record – the second and third hottest were
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It’s free and it’s fabulous – now’s the time to make leaf mould. Chiswick is blessed with lots of street trees and they are now starting to drop their leaves with the approach of winter. This week, I’ve taken my first bags of leaves collected from my street to the allotment. Leaf mould is
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