{"id":1580,"date":"2016-01-15T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/it-wont-stop-raining-so-i-am-weatherproofing-my-garden\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T09:20:00","slug":"it-wont-stop-raining-so-i-am-weatherproofing-my-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/it-wont-stop-raining-so-i-am-weatherproofing-my-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"It won't stop raining – so I am weatherproofing my garden"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nProtecting the plot from extreme weather is one of the main challenges gardeners face today. Kim Stoddart makes a startThe other day when I meant to do some gardening but it was raining so hard (again) that I didn\u2019t, Bob Dylan\u2019s The Times They Are a-Changin\u2019 popped into my head. It\u2019s been my earworm ever since. Dylan may have been singing about change of a different kind, but the first verse especially is so very relevant to the drenching we\u2019ve had these past weeks. Have a listen.So when the rain finally eases and eventually the overly saturated ground recovers, I will not forget how bad it has been. We\u2019ve been lucky in so far as it\u2019s just the garden that\u2019s taken a battering, but you know things are changing when the Environment Agency talks about \u201cunknown weather extremes\u201d of the future. Unless you happen to be too busy holidaying in Barbados, it\u2019s time to take a fresh look at how we do things. Our gardening practices also need to be adapted, to become more resilient in the face of climate change. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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