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Grow Your Own Herbs in Pots

January 27, 2011

by Sarah-Bird

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Sarah Bird reviews Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell's book on simple projects for growing herbs.

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October 2, 2010

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Issy gushes about Mark Diacono's long-awaited book, A Taste of the Unexpected, which is all about growing unusual fruit and vegetables.

I really, really love my Windowgrow. It’s from Greenhouse Sensation, who specialise in products which get you growing in small spaces, and produce fab results. It looks like a windowbox, or a standard propagator, but this little piece of kit do

Review: 1000 Garden Ideas

February 17, 2010

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When I was a child, I had a scrapbook where I pasted all the photos I loved from magazines. Scrapbooks are a great way of collecting inspiration for your own garden, which is why I should have loved 1000 Garden Ideas by Stafford Cliff. The sleeve tel

Review: ‘Bulb’

January 26, 2010

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All too often big fat reference books are dull: you dip in and out of them, taking only the information you need. And all too often personal accounts of gardening are dull too: they don’t teach you enough to make you feel well-fed with gardening know

Review: The Girl’s Guide to Growing Your Own

November 22, 2009

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Let’s face it: not every gardener likes shovelling manure in the rain and spending all Saturday fussing over their sweetcorn plants. If you’re brand-new to gardening, this whole dirt-under-the-fingernails thing can be off-putting enough without the v

On trial: Rootgrow

October 28, 2009

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Earlier this year, the kind people at Plantworks sent me some samples of Rootgrow to try in the Garden from Scratch. Rootgrow is an organic product which increases plants’ strength by multiplying their root systems. More roots means more food, means

Review: The Alternative Kitchen Garden

October 1, 2009

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I have always been a great fan of Emma Cooper’s quirky podcast, The Alternative Kitchen Garden. So when I heard the podcast was becoming a book, I was pretty intrigued. This book sets out to instruct eco-conscious gardeners in the art of gardening lo