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The gardener Alan Titchmarsh quoted his dad as saying that sometimes, what a garden needs is ‘a good coat of looking-at’. Having yesterday incorporated a land mass of grass cuttings into the compost layered with rotting straw and wood ash, I know just what he meant. So, just now, the garden is getting a good coat of looking at.. Aquilegia is one of the flowers used to attract invertebrates into the Vegetable Garden. _uacct = "UA-1605524-1"; urchinTracker();
Posted by Rob at 10:44 0 comments
We have a humongous area of grass. Sown in 2012 with rye grass and clover. It generates large amounts of grass cuttings which are then composted. But these days we don’t mow as we used to. We’ve been encouraging the native plants in the lawn to flower to benefit pollinators for several years. I cut paths into the lawn and a section remains unmown until the autumn. Other sections get a trim with the mower blades set on their highest setting to encourage a succession of flowers. Watching male ghost moths disp
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