Gardening

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Looking for a particular chicken breed or want to hatch your very own chicks?  Read on to learn how to incubate chicken eggs step by step! This post contains affiliate links: I am grateful to be of service and bring you content free of charge. In order to do this, please note that when you […]

Have you heard of alpine plants? They are lesser known, even amongst many gardeners. Yet for people with an energy limiting chronic illnesses like ME, alpines are smaller and easier to manage. So let me introduce you to alpines, the ...

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MAKE COMPOST NOT WORK! Collected gardening columns and art from the Idler magazine, 2005 – 2024 by Graham Burnett. We are super-excited to launch our Kickstarter campaign for Graham’s latest book, due to be published in January 2025. ;

Long-standing readers might wonder at the title of this post. Before you say, hey, Gwenfar has been talking about Gardening with ME for ages, here’s why this I’ve titled this ‘an introduction’. I am now writing a quarterly Gardening with ...

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After many years of dreaming, scheming and then Anton having time to actually build it – the greenhouse of our dreams has arrived into our garden and we are in love. We’d always earmarked this spot for our eventual greenhouse but lacked the time and resources to make it happen. So for the past 5 […]

Grafting: the technique that turns peaches into apricots and quinces into pears. Ever wondered why most fruit trees are so expensive at the nursery? Or how you can get an apple with multiple varieties on the one tree? That is because most fruit trees aren’t simply grown from seed, like common veg. Get… View more