{"id":128656,"date":"2022-08-15T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/provide-shade-make-compost-and-leave-the-weeds-six-ways-to-heatproof-your-garden\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T09:19:02","slug":"provide-shade-make-compost-and-leave-the-weeds-six-ways-to-heatproof-your-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/provide-shade-make-compost-and-leave-the-weeds-six-ways-to-heatproof-your-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Provide shade, make compost and leave the weeds: six ways to heatproof your garden"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nExtreme weather isn\u2019t going away \u2013 so it\u2019s time to change how you care for your green space. Our gardening expert explains howGardens often act as a middle ground between our built-up, manufactured indoor lives and the world outside. The garden, whether it is a few pots, an allotment or something much larger, is a tiny slice of the rest of the ecology of our globe \u2013 and it teaches us about the gossamer threads that hold these things together.In the blast of the UK heatwave in July, we watched our gardens curl and crisp. Stalks bent and wilted; leaves scorched and then browned. How much of your green space survived depended on how you had been tending those delicate threads. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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