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  • Innovation, the Upside-Down Garden and GYO.v2

    If you've not been paying attention, there's a new grow-your-own gardening craze: the upside-down garden. According to an article in the New York Times gardeners throughout the US are taking containers - homemade and bought - turning them upside-down, hanging them up and getting great results...
    Posted to Kossoff on... (Weblog) by Leslie L Kossoff on 05-22-2010
  • Growing oasis found in urban centre

    I heard this was the place to go. Culpeper Community Garden snuck between Islington office blocks near Angel tube station, north London. I found the entrance gate; a wrought-iron affair shrouded by shrubs, but giving away way to a succession of “good afternoons” from folk passing the first of over 30...
    Posted to Beneath the cloche (Weblog) by Philip Turvil on 03-29-2010
  • Container Gardening in the US and the Titchmarsh Effect

    When BBC America first started broadcasting in the States, I became an instant addict. Sure, I had to put up with the commercials - which were from a really, really cheesy bunch of advertisers - but, hey, I got to see all sorts of shows that I had become familiar with on my trips to your country. Then...
    Posted to Kossoff on... (Weblog) by Leslie L Kossoff on 03-25-2010
  • Re: RE: Potatoes

    You can see an image of the Sarpo's, including the new introductions, in a blogpost I wrote following the 2009 open day at the Sarvari Research Trust. To say they are in 'a different league', is spot on. Anyone interested in developing their gardening (or indeed their food growing business...
    Posted to The Horticulture Week forum (Forum) by John Walker on 02-08-2010
  • New M&S sprout good for GYOers

    Controversy this week. Marks & Spencer have smashed together two pillars of the vegetable community to launch a sprout/kale hybrid called ‘flower spout’, on sale Monday. The new vegetable (yes, a new vegetable) looks like a blown-open sprout, where once tight leaves now grow proudly into middle distance...
    Posted to Beneath the cloche (Weblog) by Philip Turvil on 01-24-2010
  • Worth growing fruit and veg?

    More and more people are growing broad beans. Other veg too, come to think of it. The turgid strength of growing-your-owning has everyone excited, and now public gardens are dusting off crop rotation plans to demonstrate food growing, but is it worth it? Well yes, according to delegates at the PlantNetwork...
    Posted to Beneath the cloche (Weblog) by Philip Turvil on 10-14-2009
  • GYO PlantNetwork conference tomorrow

    I’m off to the PlantNetwork conference tomorrow at West Dean gardens, near Chichester. Industry folk and folk-eses are gathering to swap ideas for best practice fruit and veg growing, and then talk about how botanic/heritage gardens can support the British public growing their own. An ever more important...
    Posted to Beneath the cloche (Weblog) by Philip Turvil on 10-05-2009
  • The Dark Side of Grow-Your-Own

    Well, it had to happen. There's a dark side to GYO - at least that's what they're finding in the northeast corner of the United States. It's late blight and it has been killing the tomato crop. According to an article by Dan Barber, chef and co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone...
    Posted to Kossoff on... (Weblog) by Leslie L Kossoff on 08-10-2009
  • Short story: worms with five hearts

    Question: Why do worms have five hearts? Answer: Because worms have five lives.… and when one heart stops, the next one starts…. ... the conversation with a group of under 10 year olds about wormeries. The wormery expert felt oddly compelled by the logic, at least until a Doctor Who fan suggested that...
    Posted to Beneath the cloche (Weblog) by Philip Turvil on 08-09-2009
  • Has the Garden Media Guild Environmental Award been greenwashed?

    A rumour that the Garden Media Guild was preparing to 'drop' one of its most sought-after awards, the Environmental Award, because 'everyone is a green writer now' caused more than a few raised eyebrows among gardening communicators. Eyebrows reached their limits when the Guild's...
    Posted to The Horticulture Week forum (Forum) by John Walker on 08-05-2009
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