Property News · February 26, 2016

Climate change gardening – building resilience from the ground up


Kim Stoddart is on a mission to protect her garden against future weather extremes. This month she delves into the benefits of no-dig gardening.With the respite of a dryer, colder snap, the muddier areas of my garden are starting to recover from the winter deluge. My plans to develop an even more resilient form of gardening can also take shape. And I notice I’m becoming hardier myself. In the past few months, I have embraced mere drizzle and moderate gale force winds with gusto, as calm, dry days have been few and far between. No matter how much the now nine successive storms sound like someone you’d invite in for tea and cake; (“Victoria sponge, Imogen?”), we really have taken a battering. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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