Summer survivors: Grow your own vegetables

Long, sunny days are wonderful for crops in community gardens and allotments, until the rain comes to an abrupt halt! With hotter, drier summers becoming more common across the UK, consider how to grow your own vegetables successfully. Some crops positively revel in sunshine and lack of rain, whilst others struggle when temperatures soar. Constant…

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How to survive: Hosepipe Bans

The bane of every gardener’s life, hosepipe bans are slowly becoming a common part of life up and down the country. Up to 640,000 households across Devon and Cornwall are currently facing their own, enforced by South West Water in efforts to ‘break through the drought cycle’. This is a direct result of 2022, where…

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