{"id":133706,"date":"2023-01-13T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-start-a-sustainable-affordable-garden-right-now\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T06:18:09","slug":"how-to-start-a-sustainable-affordable-garden-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-start-a-sustainable-affordable-garden-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"How to start a sustainable, affordable garden \u2013 right now"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt might be winter, but there\u2019s plenty to do: our expert on how to start a small, climate-friendly garden from scratchThe moment I knew our home purchase was final, last April, I ransacked my mother\u2019s garden for cuttings. It was still a little early in the season, but I couldn\u2019t hold back: budding twigs of viburnum, potentilla, black elder and buddleja were thrust into compost. Despite having gardened professionally for well over a decade, managing and maintaining gardens from green city pockets up to modest rural estates, this would be my first ever garden.It is a small, slim rectangle: 80 square metres of chalky, free-draining Hampshire soil \u2013 two-thirds of which is lawn \u2013 in a village fringing the North Wessex Downs. It is north-facing yet exposed, and therefore surprisingly sun baked between the equinoxes, and, to our delight, relatively free of pre-existing structures: a tiny shed, a thin strip of border, a miscellany of pots and a beer-branded barbecue \u2013 my potting bench, until it is forcibly rehomed \u2013 but otherwise a horticultural blank canvas. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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