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When I was a child, I had a scrapbook where I pasted all the photos I loved from magazines. Scrapbooks are a great way of collecting inspiration for your own garden, which is why I should have loved 1000 Garden Ideas by Stafford Cliff. The sleeve tells me that this book is a collection of [...]

All too often big fat reference books are dull: you dip in and out of them, taking only the information you need. And all too often personal accounts of gardening are dull too: they don’t teach you enough to make you feel well-fed with gardening knowledge and inspired.
But Anna Pavord’s book, Bulb: a hand-picked selection [...]

Let’s face it: not every gardener likes shovelling manure in the rain and spending all Saturday fussing over their sweetcorn plants. If you’re brand-new to gardening, this whole dirt-under-the-fingernails thing can be off-putting enough without the vast swathes of knowledge you are expected to acquire.
So what if there was a book aimed at girly gardeners [...]

Earlier this year, the kind people at Plantworks sent me some samples of Rootgrow to try in the Garden from Scratch. Rootgrow is an organic product which increases plants’ strength by multiplying their root systems. More roots means more food, means a happier plant. It works by using friendly mychorrizal fungi which are necessary for [...]

I have always been a great fan of Emma Cooper’s quirky podcast, The Alternative Kitchen Garden. So when I heard the podcast was becoming a book, I was pretty intrigued. This book sets out to instruct eco-conscious gardeners in the art of gardening lovingly. It also gives readers a glimpse into Cooper’s own journey as [...]