TEST A garden is an ecosystem, but it’s quite an unnatural one and it’s hard to get the balance right

A garden is an ecosystem, but it’s quite an unnatural one and it’s hard to get the balance right

TEST Companion planting is an attractive way to deter pests and works by confusing the insect

Companion planting is an attractive way to deter pests and works by confusing the insect

TEST Look regularly on the undersides of leaves for caterpillars and for eggs, which are often laid in clutches and pick them off by hand

Look regularly on the undersides of leaves for caterpillars and for eggs, which are often laid in clutches and pick them off by hand

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Go with the Flow

Sue Whigham shares some valuable new-to-gardening advice I’m sure that by now we should be used to the rain but I’m not entirely sure that we are. We had a dry, sunny day the other day and how everybody’s mood...

Farm Fables

Jane Howard gets to the bottom of why so many ponds have disappeared across the High Weald I have a new passion, almost an obsession, it’s about ponds. And there’s a distinct possibility I might become a bit of a...

Hedge Issues

Sue Whigham takes a meander along nature’s verdant and vital corridors Recently the BBC’s Today programme carried a feature about England’s hedgerows which created a lot of interest among listeners. On the strength of that, Martha Kearney interviewed one of...