The Garden Minute ⏰: Monday 3 June 2024
☀️ Good morning Gardeners. Need a little Monday Motivation? Here's a round up of gardenspiration to set you up for the week ahead.
✂️🌱 Curated Cuttings
A round-up of tips, tricks and news snippets on all things garden-related.
🐦 Got a pigeon problem? Pop this in your garden …
🦊 … and try this cheap kitchen staple to keep the foxes away
🌿 What is ‘companion planting’ and how can it help your garden thrive? Real Simple has some advice
🍄 What delicacies are hiding in plain sight where you are? John Wright shares his foraging tips
🌿 A 3-step solution to get rid of moss on the lawn? Yes please.
📱 The easy way to identify plants and flowers using your iPhone (spoiler: it’s not Google!)
🥒 Limited on space? Here’s a handy guide to growing cucumbers vertically
☕ The Long Read
Down tools, grab a brew and get lost in a long read on your break
Where the wild things are. This article from The Guardian explores the untapped potential of our gardens, parks and balconies. Will it make you look at your environment differently?
📱 Ones to watch
Spotlight on some of the gardening creators we’re loving this week
Looking for a little veg-spiration? Look no further than Good_Life_Garden, an account run by RHS student Diana.
Come for the gorgeous shots of her harvests, stay for the handy help and advice to help you recreate her successes in your own garden.
📍 Local news
From the weird to the wonderful. What’s happening in gardens around the UK?
📍 The ‘hidden gem’ in Yorkshire that feels like The Secret Garden
📍 Newby Hall reinstates gardening volunteer programme for the first time since Covid
📍 Northumberland Coast walled garden which was 'lost for generations' set to reopen
📍 3 beautiful Lincolnshire gardens participanting in the National Gardening Scheme
💬 Tell us your tips
We’re looking for the little tips, tricks, and timesavers you use in your garden.
Perhaps you’ve found a new use for something old. Perhaps you accidently stumbled on something that’s saved you HOURS on a gardening task. Whatever it is that you now can’t live without in your garden, we’d love to hear about it. Drop us a comment. 👇
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Happy gardening! Jess x