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Book review: The Deckchair Gardener

14 August 202026 May 2017

The Deckchair Gardener: an improper gardening manual, Anne Wareham. As someone who is now trying to garden with a chronic illness (ME), I’m always on the lookout for ideas on how I might reduced what I need to do in …

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Categories Book Review, Gardening books, Gardening with ME, MECFS

Book review: The Small Harvest Notebook. Volume 1.

11 December 2016

Emma Cooper, author of several gardening books including The Alternative Kitchen Garden, an A-Z and Jade Peals and Alien Eyeballs, as well as her informative blog The Unconventional Gardener, has just published her latest book, The Small Harvest Notebook (volume 1). …

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Categories Book Review, Gardening books, Small Gardens, Urban Gardens

Reflections: Gardening Myths and Misconceptions

4 September 202010 April 2014

Gardening Myths and Misconceptions, by Charles Dowding The following is not so much a book review as some reflections from reading this book. I recommend you visit Helen over at Patient Gardener, who has written a very insightful review of this book. …

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Categories Book Review, Gardening books, Soil, Vegetables

A gardening book I won’t read

14 August 202011 January 2010

I was just wandering around the gardening and cookbook section at Waterstones today (they are next to each other) and out of the corner of my eye I saw the words ‘girls’ and ‘dirty’. Swinging back to take a closer …

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