THE MODERN MINT BLOG
Modern Mint Environment
As a garden design company we at Modern Mint are always thinking about our relationship to the natural environment. We read …
Mother Teresa
An unusual blog post today as we wanted to write about Mother Teresa. Recently we have been reading the book No Greater Love… …and found ourselves making lots of notes from it. Though not strictly a gardening book we share with you below some of the ideas Mother Teresa has written in the book, and (hopefully) find in her words a tenuous link to gardening by the end. What made us pick up this book and start reading? It is Autumn, a time for dreaming and reflection. We were searching for something calm and ordered to help influence our own …
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. …