1. Go Organic: Buy nothing for 24 hours

Get Bracknell, Friday 21 November 2008

Next Saturday is the official Buy Nothing Day, one of my favourite days of the year.

2. The garden expert who had no garden...

Get Bracknell, Thursday 13 November 2008

Louise Hampden would peer into people’s gardens, green with envy because she didn’t have one.

3. November in bloom!

Get Bracknell, Friday 14 November 2008

There is a little self-congratulatory exercise that I like to carry out this time of year.

4. Crunch without credit – grow your own vegetables

Get Bracknell, Friday 7 November 2008

There's a new book out to help everyone starting to garden and especially anyone who wants to try gardening organically.

5. Rural Reading- Walking on the wild side of Reading

Get Bracknell, Friday 24 October 2008

Typically, the weather this week has been glorious and I have been stuck indoors for most of it.

6. Rural Reading- Take a dawn walk to see bat bonanza

Get Bracknell, Friday 17 October 2008

I have been having a lovely few days lately.

7. Heap good idea – compost at heart of the garden

Get Bracknell, Friday 3 October 2008
Over the next two months most of us will have lots of garden waste to get rid of and the best place for most of it is in the compost heap.

8. Flashes of blue – a pair of rare treats

Get Bracknell, Friday 26 September 2008

I have been ever so lucky this week to see flashes of blue.

 

9. Gardener’s Delight tomato lives up to its name

Get Bracknell, Tuesday 29 July 2008

Earlier this week I had the first tomato of the season.

10. Flower ’bout opening your garden to public?

Get Bracknell, Friday 8 August 2008

It takes a particular kind of gardener to decide to open his or her garden to the public.