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Allotment Heaven PDF Print E-mail

My bags for life and Tupperware are being pressed into pretty frequent service, ferrying potatoes, courgettes, berries, beans, onions, tomatoes, lettuces and more from allotment to kitchen. You wait all year for a glut, and then 12 come along at once.

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Why Rose Gardening Is So Addictive PDF Print E-mail

For many of us, the act of gardening brings us closer to nature by getting us outdoors and allowing us the opportunity to tend and grow objects that in the absence of our assistance would not be able to survive, let alone thrive. There is a special connection between the growers of roses and their plants, however, which seems to go even beyond the basic instincts of the traditional gardener.

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Stumped: A rampant robinia PDF Print E-mail

We've put it in the wrong spot. Can we move it?

We planted a Robinia pseudoacacia 'Frisia' three years ago. It's doing too well, spreading its branches and covering other plants (we've put it in the wrong spot, to be honest). What is the best way and time to move it?It isn't going to be happy. Robinias resent disturbance, and you may get some trouble with the roots "suckering": that is, the stress of the disturbance causes them to throw up shoots all along their length.
But it's been only a few years and this is the best time – when the tree is dormant and all the leaves have dropped – so you may get away with it. Water deeply the night before. Decide where it's going and dig the hole first. Dig a trench all the way around the "drip line" (ie, below the farthest reach of the branches) and then under, the idea being to take as much root as possible. Plant and water deeply, and water well for the next year.

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Gardening jobs for November PDF Print E-mail

As the first winter frosts nip the air, there are still a few jobs to be done before putting the garden to bed

Not so slowly now, the remains of the last season are making their way back to earth. Cast your eye up and newly bare branches reveal the sky while, at our feet, the leaves are browning. These are the first few weeks of winter and I use my time carefully, letting the last of the autumn run its course and targeting energies to set things up for the months ahead.

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Top of the crops PDF Print E-mail

I'm not here to defend turnips, I want to talk tops. A month ago I went to a Korean restaurant with the express desire to eat a lot of kimchi (fermented vegetables). I ordered three pickles – the traditional version made with Chinese cabbage, one with radishes and one made predominately from turnip greens. I've had kimchi made with turnip roots, but never the greens before. It was a revelation. I dined alone, and well-dressed Korean ladies looked on in surprise. One leaned over and praised my choices. It was a delightful, if slightly odd scenario, and those pickles were so perfect I've dreamed of them since.

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