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Creating A Wildlife Garden On The Isle of Wight

An article which examines five ways to create a nature friendly garden and goes on to explain what the gardener/author can do to help promote wilflife in gardening projects.

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No-Dig Gardening – Can You Dig It?

My Basic Guide To No-Dig Gardening – Can You Dig It? Gardening, without digging, you say? Impossible! Or is it… It seems the gardener’s arsenal (read: shed) is chock-full of tools tailor-made for digging, whilst digging itself seems synonymous with the gardener’s work. After all, how man...

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No Mow May 2023 on the Isle of Wight

#NoMowMay is all about allowing your lawn to grow in order to lend a hand to our wildlife. In this blog we discuss the environmental benefits of not mowing your lawn, and how you can best get involved.

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How your local Isle of Wight Gardener uses Mycorrhizal Fungi and WHY?

Mycorrhizal fungi are, despite being around for yonks, at the cutting edge of sustainable gardening research. In this blog, we’ll be digging beneath the soil to discover what my new favourite fungi friends can do for biodiversity, why they can revolutionise the way we grow and how they can help en...

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