Just imagine – a cabbage that could feed 60!!! I couldn't believe my ears – but, this was Gardeners' Question Time and you do not disbelieve what you hear on Gardeners' Question Time. (In the same episode Bunny Guinness was singing the praises of 'mineralised straw mulch' – …
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Can we blame male trees for the dramatic increase in the rates of hay fever? Tom Ogren says ‘yes’!
The sex life of plants, including trees, is not simple. Some, known as perfect flowered plants, have their male and female parts in the one flower so are effectively self pollinating (roses or apples); some, known as monoecious flowered plants have separate male and female …
Help get some really worthwhile research published
This is the garden of GREEN – Gardens for Research and Education. And, under guidance of Matt Adams (who ran the Good Gardeners' Association from 2000 to 2011) it has spent eight years tracking 23 minerals (calcium lead, selenium etc) in soil cultivated in different ways from …
Poinsettias – they can kill…
A few months ago we received the following email from Donna in the US. At the time there were not many poinsettias around so we did not think it would get the attention it deserved. But now, as each Christmas, shops are piled high with poinsettias of every shape and colour – and …
Alas, still no allergen-free gardens…
I am, yet again, totally baffled........ There are around 12 million hay fever sufferers in the UK, approximately 20% of the population. And there are around 25 million amateur gardeners, approximately 40% of the population – and that is not counting those who garden for a …