However climate chaos is affecting us gardeners in unpredictable ways - which is, I guess, one of the definitions of chaos. Here in the UK our Spring weather is getting more erratic with very warm and very cold weather running hard into each other. Last April we had snow and 20 days of frost yet hardy plants by and large cope with this. Sow more seeds in early August for harvest from early September and right through autumn. Growing Salad Leaves In Containers

This is a very simple job but one which is often overlooked. To extend the rhododendron and Azalea season and ensure that the plant does not waste its energies into seed production, dead head as many faded flowers as you can. This is particularly relevant to the large-flowered varieties. Do not use secateurs as you risk injuring the fragile buds growing at the base of the flowers but gather the flower trusses between finger and thumb and snap them off.In 2016 Hodder Books published an audiobook of Don's Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs, read by the author. [51] Style and reception [ edit ]

Brown, David (15 March 2012). "Monty Don: I'd like a "five-year arrangement" with Gardeners' World". The Telegraph . Retrieved 12 August 2020. Horton, Helena (15 June 2019). "Monty Don reveals his family's 170-year-old feud with the Royal Horticultural Society". The Daily Telegraph. I guess that this is where we come up against the row within Monty Don, between the lightly earthy garden enthusiast and the grimmer unworldly hippy moralist. Well, we all have an inner cheerfully accepting Cavalier, and it does battle with our gloomier Roundhead. Magically delivering on all of the components that make a great garden and doing it better than any of us in the process. Don had never received formal training as a gardener. In 2006 he commented, "I was – am – an amateur gardener and a professional writer. My only authority came from a lifetime of gardening and a passion amounting to an obsession for my own garden." [55]

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Finally, encourage a wide range of predators. I have masses of thrushes, frogs, toads, beetles, centipedes, shrews, and a few hedgehogs - all of which love eating slugs and snails. This needs plenty of cover, an avoidance of toxic chemicals - such as slug pellets - and a degree of tolerance for collateral damage. Keep Feeding Birds Rodger, James (11 May 2020). "Monty Don announces death of dog – days after Gardeners World appearance". Birmingham Mail . Retrieved 11 May 2020. Meet Monty Don". UKTV Gardens. Archived from the original on 30 March 2008 . Retrieved 22 May 2008. In 2015 Don said that years of gardening had left him with sore knees, one of which causes constant pain and needs replacing. [61] Personality Presenters: Television's Intermediaries with Viewers, By Frances Bonner, p. 92, Routledge 2016.