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Eggshells in your garden, the benefits for growers.

Friday, April 10th, 2009

As a child, Easter meant one thing to me… Easter eggs.
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Posted in Vegetable garden tips and advice. | 5 Comments »

Window box vegetables, What you will need & how to put it all together

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Last week I wrote about a solution to lack of space for growing salad vegetables faced by balcony and patio gardeners.
That was the window box vegetable garden.
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Window box vegetable growing for gardeners with limited space.

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Living in the countryside with roughly a half an acre site for my planting experiments, I sometimes tend to forget there are many gardeners who are less space “fortunate”.
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93 year old Granny goes guerrilla gardening at night.

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

A 93 year old grandmother goes guerrilla gardening at night in Totnes, Devon.
Have a look at her encounters with cabbage palms, boy racers, and strangers who wish to kiss her.