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Thinking Like a Plant Makes You A Better Gardener

On February 9, 2022 By Stefan Drew

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I Was Once Taught To Think Like a Plant. The Man Telling Me to Think Like a Plant Was a Market Gardener With Decades Of Experience. He Could Walk Into My Greenhouses And Tell Me I’d Overwatered On Monday Or Didn’t Ventilate Enough On Friday.… More Leave a comment

How To Grow Yuzu In The UK

On February 6, 2022 By Stefan Drew

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Yuzu Are An Asian Citrus Plant Favoured By Chefs In Dressings & Drizzles Over Seafood. This is How To Grow Yuzu In Your UK Garden. The question I’m often asked before How to Grow Yuzu is … What Is Yuzu? So in this article I’m covering both What is Yuzu? and How… More 6 responses

1940s Wartime Gardening Video

On February 5, 2022 By Stefan Drew

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The Wartime Dig For Victory Campaign Saw Every Scrap of Land Being Turned Over To Food Production. Gardening Was A Way To Win The War. And Government Sponsored Films, Teaching Gardening Skills, Were Shown in Cinemas And Village Halls . This film repeats content from a previous one in the first few minutes but then goes into new material and is a revelation.… More 2 responses

Crops Grown On Devon Cliff Plats

On February 4, 2022 By Stefan Drew

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What Crops Were Grown on Devon Cliff Plats? Freshly Harvested Potatoes Similar to Plat Teddies A wide range of crops were grown on the Devon cliff plats aka cliff gardens or cliff farms. In the early days, during the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), there was a shortage of cereals and hence bread.… More Leave a comment

Latin Binomial Names: Why Do The Latin Names of Plants Change?

On January 29, 2022 By Stefan Drew

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Plants All Bear a Latin Binomial Name, E.g. Digitalis purpurea, As This Removes Confusion Caused By Local And National Names. But Sometimes Plant Names Change. This is Why. The Latin Binomial Name system is confusing to most gardeners. They want to call a foxglove a foxglove rather than Digitalis purpurea, which is what the “experts want to call it.… More Leave a comment

1943 Onion Growing Time Lapse Photography

On January 27, 2022 By Stefan Drew

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Time Lapse Photography Is Often Thought To Be a Modern Innovation. But This 1943 Onion Growing Video Is Superb. Not Only Is It Filmed So Well But It Succinctly Shows The Two Year Life Cycle Of An Onion in Just Ten Minutes.… More Leave a comment

Cliff Fields, Plats And Quillets in Westcountry Garden History

On January 24, 2022 By Stefan Drew

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Plats, Quillets & Cliff Gardens Are a Westcountry Gardening Technique That Can Teach Us Much About Gardening And Growing Crops. At Branscombe & Weston Plats There Are Examples That Go Back To the 1800s Or Before And Were Farmed Until the 1960s.… More Leave a comment