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Building Garden Paths and Bed Edgings
Why the base layer decides how long your paths last, and how living edgings of box, lavender or thyme can replace the hard stone border.
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Notes from the garden.
What's new, what's growing, what we're learning. Updates, guides and stories for people who take their garden seriously.
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Basic Tool Kit: Eight Pieces Instead of a 40-Piece Set
Eight good garden tools are all you need to start; how to spot quality and where to save.
Self-Sufficiency
Canning and Preserving: The Basics Done Safely
Why acidity decides whether a jar is safe, and how to handle beans and squash the right way.
Self-Sufficiency
Storing the harvest: a storage map by temperature and humidity
Sort every crop by two numbers, temperature and humidity, and find the right spot for carrots, potatoes and apples in the cellar, sand box or earth clamp.
Self-Sufficiency
Make Your Own Juice and Syrup: A Year in Bottles
From elderflowers in May to the apple press in October: how to bottle the summer and enjoy it all year long.
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Sharpen and Care for Your Garden Tools: Angle, Resin and Rust
The right angle on the whetstone, plus resin and rust as the hidden blade killers: how to keep your garden tools sharp for years.
Self-Sufficiency
Fermenting: Sauerkraut and Vegetables With Nothing But Salt and Patience
Sauerkraut, salt-brined cucumbers and more: how to preserve autumn vegetables with just two percent salt, keep everything under the brine, and tell harmless kahm yeast apart from mould.
Self-Sufficiency
Saving Your Own Seed: Open Pollinated Instead of F1
Why F1 seed segregates, how to spot open pollinated varieties, and how to ferment and store your own seed.
Natural Garden
Feeding and Supporting Birds All Year Round
From the bird-feeder debate to a living pantry: how to support birds all year with clean food, water, and native berry shrubs.