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In Part One of How To Make A Flower Border From Scratch we told you a little about our first …
Charles Dowding
The team at Modern Mint have recently visited the teacher and vegetable grower Charles Dowding, who runs courses at his market garden in Somerset. Charles Dowding is best known for his ‘no-dig’ approach to gardening. Seeing how he grows his vegetables and fruit first hand, we can tell you it looks fantastic (and the vegetables tasted great!) Read Charles’ book – No Dig Organic Home & Garden The basic gist of the idea is to use compost mulches on your soil to grow your food. When you get your vegetable patch, instead of digging or (god forbid) double-digging, you just …
How To Make A Flower Border From Scratch
This is a fascinating subject – how do you make a flower border from scratch? When we first started gardening, and got to know a little bit about what we were doing, learnt a few plant names, seen a few different conditions, we wanted to stretch our creative wings a bit by planing a border of our very own. So we asked the lady we were apprenticed with at the time to tell us the secret – how do you make a border from scratch? How do you know what plants to choose? What, basically, are the underlying principles behind …
If You Want To Meet Some Brilliant People…
If you want to meet some brilliant people, we recommend you get stuck into reading this list below. It outlines five of the people Modern Mint have interviewed in the last year and a half about what they do, why they do it and what we can learn from them. They are brilliant. 1) Rosy Bee – Plants for Bees “There is a lot written – particularly by the wildlife trusts – about native plants being best. This never made any sense to me as many of the bees are not really native.” 2) Essex Bees “My brother, Dan, used …