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What does Sustainability Mean to You? Sustainability is the ability to sustain one’s self indefinitely. So sustainability requires the practice of being aware of the consequences of your actions and planning to use resources only to the extent that the system can support that use meeting your desires without harming the ability of other parts [...]
Ditches: what are they good for? Ditches are narrow continuous excavations in the ground so are cooler, shadier and wetter than the surrounding ground so provide a home for ferns, newts and other living organisms that like those conditions. Ditches are disappearing naturally over time as leaves & twigs accumulate in the ditches and because [...]
Do you want a beautiful garden that can contribute to restoring our life-support system? If you do you need to think about how you can design your garden to provide for the needs of the life cycle of birds, bugs & butterflies which are disappearing from the countryside over the past hundred years due to [...]
Gardening Restores Body, Mind & Spirits to Natural Health. So what is gardening? Gardening is the process of creating a garden. So what is a garden? The word Garden comes from the Arabic for “Piece of Paradise on Earth” so came into our language while the Political Christian Leaders were on their crusades to impose the [...]
Eco-friendly Gardening: what is it – is a question I get asked often. Eco-friendly Gardening is gardening that works with nature by using the plants designed to thrive in the conditions they are put in so do not need ever increasing levels of chemical inputs to survive. In areas where the climate is not changing [...]
When replanting a hedge that has mostly failed, like I did at the weekend The first thing to establish is why the trees died There are 3 main causes to death of bare rooted sapling plantings: 1 the tree roots were dead before planting – exposed to wind or sun for 30 mins or frosted [...]
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