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Photo from Sarah Green’s Organics here in Essex.
Stop Euphorbia Sap – Advice For Growers
We were told a wonderful piece of advice this week, from a man who grows a lot of euphorbia. Euphorbia oozes a milky sap when the stems are cut or broken, and this can cause a lot of irritation to your skin if it drips onto you. So this lovely gentleman told us to do the following: Immediately after you cut a euphorbia, make another cut underneath. This will stop the flow of sap and prevent any harm or potential harm coming to your skin. How good is this advice? Perfect, we would say, for growers and cut flower arrangers.
Planting Trees In The UK
This June, we have been talking about planting trees in the UK. Update March 2020: We now have a Grove Of Trees You Can Add To – Visit Here To Plant a Tree Why Plant Trees In The UK? Our recent Chelsea Fringe project was about using your garden to capture carbon. One way of doing that was to plant trees. Trees take carbon from the air and turn in into…. themselves. Trees and woodlands are not actually the largest stores of carbon on the planet – that accolade goes to our oceans, followed up by our soils – but …
Seeing A Talk By Garden Writer Val Bourne
Previously on Modern Mint…. We shared this piece by Val Bourne – 5 Golden Rules of Planting Last week we were speaking at the Blenheim Palace Flower Show, when lo and behold Val Bourne herself came on to talk after us. We have always been a fan of her writing and books, all steeped in gardening experience, so we took this opportunity to sit down,listen to her speak and make some notes. She spoke about vegetable gardening, and these notes are below – handy for us here at Modern Mint to remember what she said – but you may have …