The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening

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Join Monty in his garden at Long Meadow! Over half of the photos included in this updated edition were shot at his renowned personal garden over the course of a year. Discover how he created this beautiful garden, and how you can do the same in your own.

Don, Monty; Don, Sarah (1 March 2012). The Jewel Garden – Monty Don, Sarah Don, Monty Don & Sarah Don – Google Books. ISBN 9781444718782 . Retrieved 22 April 2016. There are many different kinds of lettuce and scores of varieties within each of those types (see panel) but the secret - as with edible plants of any kind - is to find out what you like to eat and what can easily grow in your plot and then make the most of these. The line of least resistance always makes most sense. Lettuce

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One word of caution. The aim is to grow strong, healthy individual plants so if you buy a pot with lots of seedlings I think it better to divide each pot into two or three. Then plant these sections at the base of each support so they have less competition and you should end up with more flowers. In 2005, Routledge published The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption, a joint autobiography and the story of Don and his wife Sarah's home and gardens at Longmeadow. [49] [50] Herefordshire gardener Monty Don shares new picture of adorable puppy". Hereford Times . Retrieved 28 October 2022. We should do everything we can to reduce the amount of plastic in our gardens. The first stage in that process is to reuse any plastic seed trays and pots that you have - and to look after them so I can continue to use them for as long as possible and not replace them. a b c d e f Vincent, Alice (11 June 2020). "How Monty Don became the nation's gardener". Prospect . Retrieved 10 August 2020.

Singh, Anita (7 December 2010). Monty Don returning to Gardeners' World. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 28 February 2011. Don is a keen proponent of organic gardening, becoming "officially" organic in his own garden in 1997. [48] The practice of organic techniques often features in his published and broadcast work. The organic approach is most prominent in his 2003 book The Complete Gardener. This has led him into some controversy with those advocating non-organic techniques, with some criticising his position of influence presenting Gardeners' World and exclusion of non-organic solutions to pests and diseases in the garden. [56] Peskett, Matt (19 January 2018). "Monty Don's Paradise Gardens review – More Than Just Gardens". Grow Like Grandad . Retrieved 20 January 2018.a b Husband, Stuart (20 November 1999). "Beats working". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 August 2020– via Newspapers.com. a b c d "He gave up his jewels but found gold in the garden". The Sunday Times. London. 29 October 2006. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 . Retrieved 13 March 2010. Whatever your grass-cutting inclinations, resist the temptation to scalp your grass down to its midsummer height. Set the blades high and just trim the grass for the first few weeks as much to even it out as to reduce it. Then, as the weather gets warmer and the grass starts to grow more strongly, gradually reduce the height over a few weeks but always keeping it slightly on the long side. This will result in a much healthier, greener sward.

Cavendish, Lucy (8 March 2013). "Monty Don: My garden has come into itself, for better or for worse". Radio Times . Retrieved 14 March 2014.It is not so much the absolute temperature as the variations between night and day that they must become used to. Put them outside in a sunny but sheltered spot and have some horticultural fleece to hand to cover them if their is a cold night, but let them get used to the changes in temperature and exposure to wind and rain that they have not had to face over the past few months for at least a week - and preferably two - before moving them to their final position after the risk of any frost has passed. Planting Lilies In Pots This last month we have reshaped and replanted the Damp garden and started to do the same with the Dry garden. These are not make-overs - the essence and planting palette of both gardens remains the same, but it has involved removing most of the plants and remaking and re directing paths.

Do not use secateurs as you risk injuring the fragile buds growing at the base of the flowers but gather the flower trusses between finger and thumb and snap them off. Although there are over 30 species of slug in the UK, there are 4 main garden ones and the biggest do not necessarily do the most damage. What you see is actually a tiny percentage of the population and slug activity and densities of over 250,000 per acre are common. a b c d e f g h i j k Anderson, Hephzibah (25 May 2008). "Green fingers, silver tongue". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 May 2020. Magically delivering on all of the components that make a great garden and doing it better than any of us in the process. The Jewel Garden is interesting because it explains in diary format the pain of their jewelry business collapse, leading to their gardening future. It reminded me of my father losing his London based design business in the same recession, with three young children, both of my parents pushed onto a new path in childcare nurseries and holiday cottages in Yorkshire. It sets the scene for the gardening passion.a b c Sale, Jonathan (2 December 1999). "Passed/Failed: Monty Don". The Independent. London . Retrieved 25 November 2023. C4 secures sponsorship for two new programmes". Marketing Week. 4 November 1999 . Retrieved 12 August 2020. Don has described himself primarily as a writer, "who happens to have lots of television work." [9] By the early 1990s, Don had written two unpublished novels, The Clematis Affair and An Afternoon in Padua. He later described them as "excruciatingly bad". [47] In January 1994, Allan Jenkins, then editor of The Observer, invited Don to write a weekly gardening column for the newspaper. The column began in February of that year and lasted until May 2006; Jenkins was his editor for seven years. [9] In a piece from 2004 to commemorate the tenth year of the column, Don wrote: "It has been more life-changing than any other work I have done in my adult life." [48] Don has written articles for the Daily Mail and Mail Online since 2004. [ citation needed] Between 2008 and 2016 Don was President of the Soil Association. [52] He is currently a patron of Bees for Development Trust [53] and the Pope's Grotto Preservation Trust. [54]