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30 things every novice gardener needs to know
One year after taking on my first garden, I reveal my top 30 tips, from how to attract goldfinches to planting ‘late’
24 July 2021 • 5:00am
Alice Vincent in her London garden a year after she moved in
Credit: Clara Molden for The Telegraph
Last year, when friends learnt I was graduating from a balcony to a garden, their response was almost universal. “You must be so excited!” they gasped, kindly. Sometimes it was easier to grin along and agree rather than admit the truth: I was terrified.
Soil! Cats! Self-seeded things! Lawns! Balcony gardening was something of a corset, but I’d made myself quite at home within its whalebones over the previous six years.