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Tuesday 13 April 2021
After my last harvest of the season, I find there is nothing more satisfying than pressing reset. I do this by digging over my vegetable plot to prepare the soil for the year ahead. I feel good about myself for incorporating nutritious compost and enjoying the workout. I then leave the frost to help break down the clods into a beautiful crumb; my vegetables will thank me for this with abundant yields in the year ahead. The time and effort will be totally worth it, or at least, that is what I used to think.
Of course, I had heard of no-dig gardening, championed by Bob Flowerdew on Gardener’s Question Time (along with the importance of regularly urinating on the compost heap), but I needed more convincing. What ever happened to digging for victory? My heavy clay soil needs aeration doesn’t it? I know many organic gardeners who swear by an annual digging routine and produce fantastic results, but there is more and more research these days that unearths the im
Friday 9 April 2021
Bonnie Robinson
As March progressed the small carpet of sweet violets on my plot produced hundreds of fragrant flowers. Only a few years ago I begged a few plants from a friend and they have spread with satisfying alacrity, enjoying the dappled shade of my plum trees. My violets are the common variety which grow wild in English woodlands and hedgerows but the sighting of a clump of white violets on a bank at Blenheim Palace led me to place an order with Shire Plants. They stock a superb range of heritage violets in whites, pinks and even yellows. I am currently anticipating the arrival of ‘Mrs R Barton’, white with violet streaks, ‘Baroness Alice de Rothschild’, raised from a seedling which appeared in Alice de Rothschild’s French garden in 1894, and ‘Orchid Pink’, a shamelessly pretty pink to delight my daughter.