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Seed catalogs arrive in January, which is the cruellest possible timing. By the first week of February most of us have sown something, and by the middle of March we are looking after a windowsill of pale, floppy, root-bound plants that still have six…
The instinct when something is chewing a plant is to find a bottle that lists that plant on the back. It is worth resisting for about ten minutes, partly because the diagnosis is often wrong and partly because broad-spectrum insecticides have a habit of…
Continue readingThe most common watering routine is a few minutes with a hose every evening, and it is close to the worst one available. Not because it uses too much water. Because of where it puts it. Five minutes of sprinkling wets the top inch…
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