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Tune into the latest episode of The Organic Gardening Podcast. It's full of tips for summer jobs - from weed management to looking after your plants when on holiday. Plus green manures (those remarkable do-good plants), sowing seed this month, and how to deal with the dreaded carrot fly.
The latest episode of our award-winning The Organic Gardening Podcast is now available. Have you tuned in?
It's so good to see June in all its glory, and after a slightly testing April and May, I have been head down, bum in the air, full-on planting for the last few days. Apologise if that conjures up the wrong picture, but I'm confident that every gardener across the land knows what I'm talking about.
Garden Organic has appointed Fiona Taylor as its new chief executive. A keen organic gardener, Fiona brings a wealth of experience working in senior roles with charities and purpose driven companies. She also volunteers at a therapeutic gardening project near to her home in Worcester.
From the UK, US, Canada, Europe, Ireland and Australia, organisations such as ourselves are working together to celebrate International Compost Awareness Week, highlighting recycling food waste for home compost use.
Coming into May can create conflicting emotions in a gardener. On one hand, all the seed sowing undertaken in April has led to a rise of fresh young plants that hold so much promise for the season ahead, it truly is an exciting time.
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Listen to The Organic Gardening Podcast for the glorious growing month of May.