The Garden Minute: Pickles, Propagation and Plant Rescue
☀️ 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.
🥒 Preserve, pickle, freeze, ferment: how to capture your garden’s summer harvest
🇳🇱 Amsterdam's impromptu street gardens put London's dreary tarmac to shame
🌱 7 plants to propagate in September – it's an ideal month for taking lots of cuttings
🌸 Sow cold-loving flowers in September for 'amazing' autumn blooms
🍅 Tomatoes not turning red? Monty Don's trick will ripen green tomatoes fast
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☕ The Long Read
Down tools, grab a brew and get lost in a long read on your break
Podcast: How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction
A handful of radical nature lovers are secretly breeding endangered species and releasing them into the wild. Many are prepared to break the law and risk the fury of the scientific establishment to save the animals they love. By Patrick Barkham
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📱 Ones to watch
Spotlight on some of the gardening creators we’re loving this week
Sometimes, no matter what we do, there’s a plant that just doesn’t want to thrive. Enter: The Plant Rescuer.
Whether it’s finding the right light, temperature, watering schedule, or just the peculiarities of a particular plant, this account is packed full of helpful hints for happy houseplants.
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📍 Local news
From the weird to the wonderful. What’s happening in gardens around the UK?
📍 Grand opening of the Erlas Victorian Walled Garden new Sensory Garden
📍 Gorgeous garden commemorates Jane Austen’s connection to Alton
📍 The Norfolk gardens to visit in October 2024 as part of NGS
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Happy gardening! Jess x