Gardening
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How to get a Monty Don-approved lawn
Monty Don, the nation’s favourite garden guru and dog owner, has had a change of heart. He has admitted that a neatly mown lawn shows off the flower border better than long grass does; and he’s right.
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Jade Holland Cooper on restoring a 230-acre estate: ‘The garden balances out my high-octane life’
We live in the Cotswolds, a 15-minute drive from Cheltenham. Our house, which is made of Bath stone, was built in the 1830s and sits on a hill. When my husband [Julian Dunkerton, co-owner of Superdry] bought it in 2011, it was derelict, as was the garden. It came with 230 acres, and his dream was to bring it back to its former glory, so he embarked on a five-year restoration project, gutting it from top to bottom. It’s still not entirely finished, but we moved in eight years ago and have since h
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Are there still vegetables I can plant now I’ve picked my broad beans?
During the summer months, we start to enjoy the fruits of our labours with fresh produce. The early summer is a bountiful time to harvest crops such as herbs, early carrots, garlic, onions, spinach, new potatoes and broad beans. It isn’t great for garden soils to be exposed and not have any cover in terms of vegetation.
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Tom Brown’s top 10 veg to grow in July
As we garden in July, there is a sense that all the hard work of the season is now behind us; we’ve got all our planting in the ground, those plants are established and staked, and undergoing a regular bit of feeding to keep them in fine fettle. But with warm temperatures and strong light levels, this is a perfect time to sow seeds that will grow quickly and provide a harvest for us in the autumn.
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Seven surprising ways gardening helps prevent dementia
I gaze in wonder at my small crop of broad beans. As a self-confessed townie (I have a tiny container garden in Peckham, south-east London), I had no idea that the pods grow on tall, leggy vines. Normally I buy beans frozen from the supermarket.
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What to plant now for late-summer glory
It’s really important to keep your garden going for as long as possible, especially now that autumn tends to stretch into November due to our warming climate. There are plenty of plants capable of lifting your garden to new heights and, as the days begin to shorten, you’ll be rewarded with a jewel-box richness due to late-summer and autumn’s crystal-clear lightshow.
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Eight ways to prepare your garden if you’re going on holiday
If your holiday goes to plan, you’ll return home in a relaxed and mindful state – only to be brought back down to earth with a bump, perhaps, by the state of your garden: full of dried-out and crispy plants, and a lawn that resembles a hay field. To prolong that warm, fuzzy, post-holiday feeling for as long as possible, there are a few tips and tricks you can use to prepare your garden for your absence, ready for you to pick up where you left off, horticulturally, when you’ve unpacked.
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