We launch this month’s wrap-up with a competition designed to help some of the world’s poorest people. World Vision, which is a truly excellent charity, has launched Growing for Change, which is a vegetable-growing competition with a twist. You can upload a picture of a vegetable that you have grown: big or small, beautiful or odd-looking, and in the meantime learn about some of the families the charity is helping in the Bolivian Andes.
World Vision got in touch with Fennel & Fern to explain that many of the children living in these communities suffer from severe malnutrition, and some have never even seen a fresh vegetable in their life. World Vision is helping these children by building greenhouses and teaching the villagers to grow their own vegetables for their homes and to sell.
You can show your support and find out more about the Growing for Change project by entering their competition here. You could win a £500 Plantify hamper packed with tools, pots, labels and seeds.
From the archive
August 2008
Bell & Fifi Flowers
August 2009
West Dean Gardens
The girliest vegetable?
Grilled vegetable kabobs
August 2010
Magnificent mulberries
The Balcony Gardener
Face your fear of orchids
Top three posts for August 2011
Hot posts and stories from the web
The much-loved Carol Klein has shut her nursery after a row with her neighbours about compost, The Independent reports.
Lia Leendertz introduces Guardian readers to good-looking forest gardening in a feature and gallery. And if you think your garden is good-looking, the Guardian gardening blog is looking for readers’ gardens to feature.
Naomi at Out of My Shed goes to the most exciting-looking tomato tasting ever.
Apartment Therapy creates a super-cool succulent frame.
The Patient Gardener has cleared her allotment. Hoorah!
Clever gardeners do this
Cut back the leaves from around your ripening pumpkins to ensure they get as much sun as possible. And place a flap of cardboard or a wodge of straw underneath the fruits to keep them from getting damp or nibbled by slugs.
Plant of the month
The utterly gorgeous Abutilon.
Don’t forget to visit GardenGrab for more beautiful gardening blog posts.
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