One thing I love about a garden is that you can leave it alone. It won’t sit there doing nothing till you return to it, reproachful, arms crossed, waiting. It just gets on with what it was going to do anyway – growing . OK so everything will carry on growing – things you don’t The post A new...

Read a transcript of this episode. Introducing Sustainability In Your Ear transcripts: Learn more. The carbon... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Carbonfuture is Building the Trust Infrastructure for Carbon Removal appeared first on Earth911.

Using Gardeners Guild to find a gardener, shrubs for screening, scented shrubs, pots full of grasses and more The post London cottage garden in February appeared first on London Cottage Garden.

Despite serving a valuable purpose to us all, tech companies face increasing scrutiny as they... The post Greening The Cloud: How AI is Reshaping Data Center Power Demands appeared first on Earth911.

Keeping my optimism up and my hope bubbling as I look in the garden for the small things that tell us nature is moving on all the time. The post Spring in my town cottage garden – 20-1-2019 appeared first on London Cottage Garden.

Tony Juniper spent a lifetime traveling the world’s rainforests and raising awareness about environmental threats.... The post Sustainability In Your Ear Classic: U.K. Environmental Leader Tony Juniper on Rainforest Awareness & Restoration appeared first on Earth911.

Here are Six Signs of Life in my garden and Chelsea Physic Garden this week. Six plants providing scent, colour, food for wildlife or bursting into bud ready for the Spring The post Six signs of life in the garden on 26th Jan 2019 appeared first on London Cottage Garden.

Listen now and read a transcript of this episode. Introducing Sustainability In Your Ear transcripts... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Author and Activist Bill McKibben Brings The Sun appeared first on Earth911.

We have to look out onto our cottage gardens in the winter too so here are some pics of how I get splashes of colour to avoid it looking too bleak. The post How to have colour in the winter cottage garden appeared first on London Cottage Garden.

Buying plants online is a fantastic way to fill your garden and to support independent plant nurseries. You can buy what you like the look of now to plant now and flower this time next year. Yes, gardening is all about thinking ahead. The post Plant buying in late winter – what to choose...

My January cottage garden has a lot of bare earth but as well as bulbs waiting to come up, I have faith that all those plants I bought last year are hunkered down in the soil waiting for the light and warmth to start them into new growth The post London Cottage Garden in January appeared first...

My garden is reassuring me that all is well underground in the healthy bug-filled soil and I can sit and wait till everything is ready to take its turn to shine. I can relax and just wait patiently. The post My garden talks to me appeared first on London Cottage Garden.

We’re building a hoop house today!! It will be 10×12 ft and will go in the backyard, unheated, and should hold lots of seedling trays. It will be a temporary, spring-only structure to give extra space during April and May. Today is a chilly wet day, so we are enjoying this as an garage...

https://skippysgarden.com/2018/04/hoop-house-taking-shape.html

https://skippysgarden.com/2018/04/my-new-greenhouse-unheated-sma.html

In the bright sun and near 60F weather this past weekend, my little hoop-house was heating up. It’s 80F in the picture taken mid-afternoon on Sunday. The vents open automatically at 80, so the temperature doesn’t go above that. I hope I can figure out how to use my hoop-house this year before...

I moved several trays of seedlings to my hoop house on Monday. This morning they are looking really happy. Having plants in there has made the air nice and humid. I can feel it when I walk in. It’s wonderful. No need to have my heat mats on yet as the nights have been staying... The post the...

Our forecast says 30F tonight. Chilly for my little seedlings. I put the trays on the cement floor and covered them with a couple layers of row cover. I hope that’s OK for them. The post chilly night ahead for my hoop house first appeared on Skippy’s Vegetable Garden.

I planted lots of Brassicaceae (cabbage-family) seeds a week ago. They are all cute little sprouts now. They are down in my hoop house with onion, beet, parsley, spinach, and lettuce seedlings. It’s cool, in the 40’s (F), outside today but bright sunshine. The hoop house is at 80F. My husband...

I knew I had a mouse in my hoop house. It was leaving half eaten acorns in some of my plants. Then it started nibbling on the pea seeds in a couple big trays full of pea seedlings. I took the peas up to the house to grow and put out three snap traps with... The post mice in my hoop house first...