THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Mother Teresa
An unusual blog post today as we wanted to write about Mother Teresa. Recently we have been reading the book …
7 Steps To Get Your Garden Book Published
Written a book? Think it should be published and available to search for on Garden Books at Amazon. Want the thrill, the validation for your efforts, that getting your name on the cover of a book gives you? This could be the blog post that helps you. This week we took a course through the Garden Media Guild with Jackie Bennett (whose new book The Writer’s Garden: How Gardens Inspired our Best-loved Authors has just come out.) She shared with a small group of us inspiring garden writers what you need to do to get your book published. Not everything we learnt is laid out below (it …
10 Ideas for Environment Friendly Gardening
Worried about the environment? Here are ten ideas to help you think about your gardening footprint and what you can do to help the planet! 1) Grow your own food and flowers. Asparagus, sweetcorn, peas… they all taste amazing when you can nibble them straight away. By choosing well, you can also have varieties that are far tastier than anything the supermarkets sell. Don’t be worried about the work involved either – by growing perennial vegetables and lots of fruit you don’t have to work as hard for a big bounty, as it will come back every year! 2) Don’t irrigate. …
Cut Flowers
Today we thought we would write about cut flowers again, taking inspiration from the book Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden. We have written about this book before (try this blog post about Vita Sackville-West) but thought we would give a whole blog post to our favourite chapter – Cut Flowers. So, in the words of Vita, and with a little help from Sarah Raven, here are a few reasons to grow your own flowers for the vase… “A flowerless room is a soul-less room, to my thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower …