Natural Garden
Insect-Friendly Garden Lighting: Warm White, Shielded, on a Motion Sensor
How to keep your garden beautiful after dark while sparing moths, fireflies and bats: warm white, aimed downward, and only on when someone actually walks by.
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Peat-Free Gardening: Why It Matters and How to Do It
Why peat is a drained bog in your flower pot, which alternatives actually work, and how to keep even blueberries happy with no peat at all.
Natural Garden
Start a wildlife garden: five building blocks by effort and impact
Five building blocks for a wildlife garden, from a less-often-mown lawn to a small pond, sorted by effort and impact.
Natural Garden
A Bee Garden All Year: How to Close the Summer Forage Gap
With a continuous bloom calendar you fill the midsummer forage gap and keep nectar and pollen flowing from March to October.
Natural Garden
Sowing a Wildflower Meadow: Why Poor Soil Wins
An abundant wildflower meadow does not start with the seed. It starts with taking the richness out of the soil.
Natural Garden
Welcoming Bats to Your Garden: Roosts, Night Insects and Fragrant Evening Blooms
How to turn your garden into a hunting ground for bats: with night insects, fragrant evening blooms and a box hung the right way.
Garden Practice
Building a raised bed in layers
Four layers from coarse to fine, roughly 80 cm of fill height, and a plan for the yearly top-up: how to build a raised bed that keeps producing for years.
Propagating figs from cuttings: true to type and easy
A hand-long twig turns into a fruiting fig tree. Here is how to propagate your fig true to type from hardwood cuttings in winter, green cuttings in summer, or layering.
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Why won't my fruit tree bear?
Lots of blossom, hardly any fruit: we walk through the most common causes one by one, from a missing pollination partner to late frost, nitrogen and biennial bearing, so you can find the right one for your tree.
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