Winter Gardening - January & February

"Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret," says Horace. You can drive Nature out with a pitchfork, but she will always return. I don't know about you, but I am inclined to lend a respectful ear to a man who had the good sense to run away from the battle of Philippi.

Two thousand years later, unruly, recalcitrant Nature is still invading your garden. The modern equivalents of the pitchfork are, I suppose, the gruesome armoury of horticultural chemicals - pesticides, fungicides, and postemergent herbicides...  Read more

There is another way of coping, and it involves working with the natural world, not against it...  Read more

 

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