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Pumpkins for Halloween

By Kate Bradbury in Gardeners' musings
I love growing pumpkins. They're great fun and the results are incredible, although they're not the prettiest plants. Continue reading...

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By James Alexander-Sinclair in Gardeners' musings
Everybody is organic, or trying to be. I am mostly organic. I realise that some of my more zealous fellow gardeners might think that isn't really good enough... Continue reading...

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Rust fungus on grass

By Pippa Greenwood in Gardeners' musings
I've just come back from a pear-harvesting foray, and as I stomped through the scruffy grass in the field I looked ahead and saw numerous patches of miserable, yellow grass. Continue reading...

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What to do with a rotting tree

By Adam Pasco in Gardeners' musings
A friend recently showed me a photograph of his rotting plum tree, with woodlice crawling around the affected area. Were the woodlice a pest, and how should he get rid of them? Continue reading...

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Moles and molehills

By James Alexander-Sinclair in Gardeners' musings
I don't believe it. I am incandescent with spluttering indignation. For the first time ever a molehill has appeared on my lawn. Continue reading...

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Ants in the garden

By Pippa Greenwood in Gardeners' musings
I've employed a home-grown method to reducing the number of ants in my garden. As soon as I find an ants nest, I scoop up one of my hungry hens and position her in front of it. Continue reading...

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Island gardens

By James Alexander-Sinclair in Gardeners' musings
Suddenly you are confronted with spectacular magnolias, towering cordylines, magnificent tree ferns, a vast Monterey pine and an avenue of gorgeous cinnamon-barked myrtles... Continue reading...

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What's in a name

By Adam Pasco in Gardeners' musings
I knew the silly season was in full flow when a list of the UK's Top 10 Vegetable Surnames landed in my intray... Continue reading...

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Heather

By James Alexander-Sinclair in Gardeners' musings
Heather in Scotland has always drawn me; I have childhood memories of staying with my grandparents and running at full tilt down hills, bouncing from one springy tuft to another... Continue reading...

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Bindweed

By Adam Pasco in Gardeners' musings
We recently asked Gardeners' World website and magazine readers around the UK to nominate their worst weed. One weed, it seems, crops up everywhere... Continue reading...

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