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The garden that changed the way I grow veg

How Rosemary Verey’s potager taught me that a vegetable garden can be just as beautiful as it is productive.

Jul 18, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Create a buzz – fill your garden with bee-friendly spring plants

Some of my favourite bee friendly spring flowering plants, helping bumble bee survival and how to become a BeeWalker

Mar 5, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Urban front gardens and flooding

Front gardens, hard landscaping, water butts and flooding

Nov 20, 2024 • Sally Morgan

A love of salvias

Growing up, salvias meant those garish red bedding plants (Salvia splendens) but decades later I have come to love this genus of flowers for its…

Aug 21, 2024 • Sally Morgan

Not all seeds are equal: F1, open-pollinated and organic

This week its a focus on seeds - the benefits of F1 vs open pollinated, how to dehybridise seed, why organic seed matters, a consideration of genetic…

11 hrs ago • Sally Morgan

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Urban front gardens and flooding

Nov 20, 2024 • Sally Morgan

Keyhole gardening, push/pull control of pests and growing amaranthus

Jan 22, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Make your own potting composts and a seed sowing experiment

Apr 9, 2025 • Sally Morgan

A gut health challenge: Eating 30 home-grown plant foods a week

Mar 27, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Recent posts

Sunniest year, myths about walnuts, and hedgerows

Last week's post generated some interesting comments on leaf litter which I am including here, along with a bit of myth busting on the walnut.

Dec 19, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Tidy gardens, leaf litter and the ubiquitous leaf blower

I am digging into leaf litter management this week - do you remove or leave the litter, if you remove, do you use a rake or leaf blower, and should you…

Dec 12, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Wetter winters and choosing trees for the future

Resilience Issue 14. Wetter winter weather, urban heat islands and choosing a tree for the garden that will be able to cope with the future climate

Dec 5, 2025 • Sally Morgan

On pests and diseases and an indepth look at honey fungus

The Royal Horticultural Society ranks the top 10 pests and diseases in the UK based on the queries received by their help desk. And top of the list of…

Nov 26, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Growing plants for mulch and the conservation of an endangered palm

Its the time of year when we should be mulching our soil to protect it for the coming winter. But do you produce enough mulch to be self sufficient? I…

Nov 19, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Gardening is good and does good

This week I peruse the Royal Horticultural Society's State of Gardening Report 2025, pull out a few highlights and return to the topic of front gardens…

Nov 11, 2025 • Sally Morgan

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Allotments, a garden show, bird feeders and teasels

There are lots of photos this week, with ideas from my visit to a garden show and an allotment site, growing veg in small spaces, bird feeders and…

May 7, 2025 • Sally Morgan

A gut health challenge: Eating 30 home-grown plant foods a week

Do you have a healthy gut microbiome? Do you grow enough to eat 30 home-grown plant foods a week? Plus planning ahead for next year's hungry gap and a…

Mar 27, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Brambles, bindweed and overgrown veg plots

As we emerge from winter and look at our veg plots, it’s clear that the weeds haven’t been resting! This week, I think about bramble and bindweed, and…

Mar 13, 2025 • Sally Morgan

How fermentation can boost soil health

Bokashi - how fermenting your kitchen waste can improve soil health, reduce your carbon footprint and help you to recycle more of your waste

Mar 11, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Weather, population seeds and what to do with an apple glut

How can a decrease in a plant pathogen cause more drought? Why are population seeds more resilient? How do you make apple cider vinegar from peelings…

Jan 8, 2025 • Sally Morgan

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Soil and the role of dipping ponds in the garden

World Soil day, how dipping ponds can harvest water, prevent flooding and influence the microclimate, and one way that plants communicate with fungi

Dec 4, 2024 • Sally Morgan

Storm Bert, coping with a flooded garden and natural flood management

The calm after the storm

Nov 25, 2024 • Sally Morgan

Urban front gardens and flooding

Front gardens, hard landscaping, water butts and flooding

Nov 20, 2024 • Sally Morgan

Flood prevention - slow water

Here in the UK, its Flood Prevention Week, and just to ram home the message, we've had a pretty wet week. Here are my 5 tips to creating a flood…

Oct 16, 2024 • Sally Morgan

Growing in sand

Peter Korn at the Beth Chatto Symposium, quarries, Chatto Wood and creating an experimental raised sand bed

Oct 9, 2024 • Sally Morgan

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Hedgerow abundance

Our hedgerows are looking super at the moment, full of colour and fruits. Its the ideal time to carry out some hedgerow surveys and to try dating them.

Oct 26, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Puglia’s rich traditions & fragile future: Culture, cuisine, and olives under threat

Last month, I visited Puglia to look at olives and learn how they are being affected by disease and climate change

Jun 5, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Some climate-resilient edibles from the coast

As climate change increases the risk of coastal flooding, interest is growing in salt tolerant crops. I look at some of the salt tolerant edibles you…

May 30, 2025 • Sally Morgan

How fermentation can boost soil health

Bokashi - how fermenting your kitchen waste can improve soil health, reduce your carbon footprint and help you to recycle more of your waste

Mar 11, 2025 • Sally Morgan

This week's post is all about the lack of genetic diversity in many of our gardens and why we need to address this in order to create a more…

Feb 19, 2025 • Sally Morgan

gardening

On pests and diseases and an indepth look at honey fungus

The Royal Horticultural Society ranks the top 10 pests and diseases in the UK based on the queries received by their help desk. And top of the list of…

Nov 26, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Growing plants for mulch and the conservation of an endangered palm

Its the time of year when we should be mulching our soil to protect it for the coming winter. But do you produce enough mulch to be self sufficient? I…

Nov 19, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Looking back on a hot, dry summer

This week I list some of my successes and some of the not so successful aspects of the summer garden, plus news of my garden appearing on Gardener's…

Oct 17, 2025 • Sally Morgan

A garden update

This week in the garden with salvias (and how to propagate them), a false autumn, hedgerow food for wildlife and hedge trimming

Sep 29, 2025 • Sally Morgan

Two inspiring Dublin gardens, a quick plant quiz… and a greenhouse zombie?!

Two inspirational gardens in Dublin, a short edimental plant quiz and if you scroll to the end you can read about the zombie in my greenhouse!

Aug 18, 2025 • Sally Morgan

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