Woman's Weekly Living Series

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1 Try to avoid bare ground. This helps to protect the soil from the sun, enabling the moisture within to stay there to the benefit of surrounding plants. On my veg patch, I use lettuce and herbs, calendula, nasturtium and chamomile as attractive and

Kitchen Garden

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This brand new planter from The Posh Shed Company comes in nine sizes. It has fully pressurised treated timber walls and a base that will not rot, made from recycled plastic board. www.theposhshedcompany.co.uk This pack contains everything needed to

Australian House & Garden

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The shift to warmer weather heralds long days and free time – so seize the opportunity to tackle those niggling jobs around the house that you’ve been putting off. And where better to start than the front of your home, with a thorough tidy-up and som

Union of Concerned Scientists

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There’s never a bad time to celebrate soil—it’s an incredible living ecosystem and a foundation for much of the food, fiber, and fuel we use every day. But if there was ever a time when celebrating soil seemed particularly important, it might be now.

Psychologies

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We inhabit an increasingly fragile planet and are at a tipping point when it comes to the choices we make as consumers. How we decorate our homes is a great place to begin making a positive shift towards living more mindfully. The furniture and fabr

Green Magazine

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It's Wednesday and the farm is bustling. Growing season means that there is much work to do and today, alongside the permanent staff, there are over twenty volunteers. Everyone is busy: weeding, harvesting vegetables, washing salad leaves, weighing a

This Old House

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WIDTH: Four feet across is considered ideal, so you can comfortably reach the center from either of the long sides. LENGTH: A bed can be any length, as long as the sides are supported every 3 to 4 feet to resist the soil’s outward pressure. Either dr

Better Nutrition

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Q I was blown away when I saw the documentary Kiss the Ground, and learned how important regenerating the soil is to so many things, including growing nutrient-dense food that keeps us healthy, efficiently absorbing both carbon dioxide and water, and

Amateur Gardening

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1 When watering with a hose, use a low pressure and have the end close to the soil. It might take a little longer, but you get moisture down to the roots. 2 Seep hose and drip nozzles give good penetration: for sandy soils, the nozzles need to be clo

Kitchen Garden

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Protect your crops from garden pests or harsh weather in an instant with GardenSkill’s Pop-Up Triangle Cloches. These flexible steel-framed cloches take seconds to install – to ‘assemble’ them, simply take them out of the bag! Pop them on the ground

SA Garden and Home

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When establishing a vegetable garden for the first time, it’s best to start small. Even if you have the space, begin with one or two beds and learn how to manage those before expanding. Vegetables need sun, ideally six to eight hours a day. Some suc

Kitchen Garden

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The STIGA SGM 72 AE battery-powered Multi-Mate is a lightweight trimmer. It comes with a grass and trimmer blade for cutting patches of grass that have grown faster than the rest as well as trimming around posts and poles. The hedge trimmer can be us

Capper's Farmer

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You can grow a tomato plant indoors in any large jar. For this project, I used a large, inexpensive blue jar from a housewares store. The colored jar helps protect the roots from the sun’s rays, and it looks fabulous as a decorative planter in the ho

Organic NZ

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More and more farmers are moving towards organics and embracing regenerative practices. They are rejecting destructive agricultural practices that contribute to climate change and ecosystem instability, in favour of working with nature and healing th

Travel Africa

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Seven years does not seem to be enough time in which to completely change a game; and yet that is how long it’s taken for the African safari industry to go from being noticeably brown to convincingly green. It is also the length of time since Colin B

Amateur Gardening

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Q In our garden, we have two young skimmias that have turned almost completely yellow. Is it possible to save them, or should we just dig them up? Shona Westerfield, Nottingham A These useful evergreen shrubs, with their origins in the woodlands

Practical Motorhome

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Whether it’s recycling, global warming or discussions about diesel engines, the focus of the world is firmly on how to save our precious planet. That’s why we’ve dedicated this special section to how motorcaravanners can make a difference; from choos

Amateur Gardening

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SO pleased to see this article ‘Helpful hylotelephiums’ (AG, 26 September), as a I think these are fab, easy hardworking garden plants that were often so undervalued. Maybe the name change and growing interest in gardening for wildlife has helped the

Farmer's Weekly

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Timber poles are widely used to build on-farm infrastructure such as livestock handling pens and livestock shelters. They are also ideal for fencing, with the poles being planted as anchoring structures to keep the rest of the fence taut and upright.

Dumbo Feather

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I’m 16 and my mate and I are standing out the front of his farmhouse watching a wall of fire rolling across the fields in the distance. It’s the middle of harvest and I’m shitting myself. To get to this point, the crops have already dodged every othe

BuildHome

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“The contour of land and soil classification plays a big part of the end cost of your build as well as the design of the home itself. If the lot contains contours, a buyer has two options: either work with the land through creating a home design that

Los Angeles Times

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Agriculture generates 9 percent of California's greenhouse gas emissions, which makes it the state's fourth-largest emitter, after transportation, industry and buildings. But agriculture - often seen as an enemy of the environment - is the only one o

Organic NZ

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Published by the Soil & Health Association of NZ Inc. This year has seen a seismic shift in the way people are thinking about climate change – it’s no longer out there somewhere but right here and right now. I recently went to see the film 2040. It’s

Futurity

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A new type of soil can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants, researchers report. The self-watering soil could potentially expand the map of farmable land around the globe to previously inhospitable places and reduce water use in agricu

Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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This is – if we’re lucky – peak summer. Sun-baked days and balmy evenings mark a change of pace in the vegetable garden, and one that is most welcome after the frantic activity of the past few months. For the most part, July is a month for maintenanc

Cycling Plus

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£64.99 A clean and green way to get your bike going British-brand Green Oil was formed by Simon Nash, who started creating greener bike-oil products while still a student in Southampton. Since then the company has been obsessively trying to reduce pl

Kitchen Garden

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This brand new planter from The Posh Shed Company comes in nine sizes. It has fully pressurised treated timber walls and a base that will not rot, made from recycled plastic board. www.theposhshedcompany.co.uk This pack contains everything needed to

Kitchen Garden

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■ DO prioritise newly planted trees and bushes. In the first year, until a good root system is established, regular watering is essential. ■ DO water gently – if the water is applied too quickly, it just runs off and doesn’t go down to the roots. Mou

Your Home

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Looking for a way to bring more life into your garden but don’t want the hassle of looking after plants and flowerbeds? Tool manufacturer RYOBI has the solution: build a bug hotel. You can use almost anything to put one together but RYOBI is encourag

Woman's Day

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TV and film star Lincoln Lewis has teamed up with Australian Organic to celebrate all things organic – from fresh produce and pet food to cleaning products and skincare. Visit whyorganic.com.au to learn more about the benefits of natural, unprocessed