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Spring into action: five easy, affordable gardening tasks now winter is over
Cold snaps and unseasonably warm spells have played havoc with my garden. But now it’s time to get to work – and I have a few ideas My endeavour to keep our new small Hampshire garden low-...
For a strong veg crop, lavish your seedlings with tender, loving care
During the cool days of spring, sprouting plants need extra help to ensure they make it through to the summer During that gorgeous spring of the first lockdown, my partner would joke that, whil...
Country diary: The irises have taken over the pond, and only leeches are left | Claire Stares
LANGSTONE, HAMPSHIRE: The pond is almost devoid of life, apart from several of these greenish-grey segmented worms burrowed into the silt at the bottom My wildlife pond has been leaking and, af...
Warmer days bring the promise of growth
Sowing seeds and discussing the shape of the plot means that spring is really here The equinox tomorrow. British summertime next week. Gardens unleashed. It will soon be safe to sow spring thin...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/19/warmer-days-bring-the-promise-of-growth
Pope Francis is no champion of women | Brief letters
The Catholic church | Spade confusion | Junior doctors’ pay | Pardon my English | T-shirt slogans Your editorial (13 March ) claims that Pope Francis champions “the marginal, peripheral and...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/17/pope-francis-is-no-champion-of-women
Sowing seeds is fussy work – I’ll hold off until after next week’s equinox
The longer, warmer days mean seeds sown later will catch up with the struggling seedlings that were started off in January There comes a time in March when, for a few blissful days, it feels as...
Tell us: does your UK home have a plastic lawn?
We would like to speak to people in the UK who have had an artificial lawn fitted amid a rise in sales of plastic grass Artificial grass has become increasingly popular since the pandemic with ...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/tell-us-does-your-uk-home-have-a-plastic-lawn
John Bramble obituary
My former tutor John Bramble, who has died aged 78, was one of a group of Latinists who, between the late 1960s and 80s, used new critical approaches to rejuvenate the study of ancient Latin text...
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/14/john-bramble-obituary
How long can one family ignore a revolting garden mess? I’ll get back to you | Emma Beddington
My sons’ festering protein shake beakers have been living outside for months, part science experiment, part artwork – and don’t forget pure laziness and passive aggression After a brief F...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/13/how-long-ignore-revolting-garden-mess
Badgers, moles and hungry birds… the local wildlife has made itself at home
Returning to the Danish house, and it’s clear the flora and fauna have been busy March 12, the day before Mum’s birthday. While Dudley was the king of his vegetable patch, his orchard and c...
Christine Wilson obituary
My friend Christine Wilson, who has died aged 78 of a heart attack, was a fellow traveller in setting up one of Norwich’s first park friends’ groups. Christine was born in Berkhamsted, Hert...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/10/christine-wilson-obituary
‘They symbolise hope’: one man’s incredible photos of all 58 of Britain’s native butterflies
While recovering from cancer, an amateur photographer found solace capturing the insects – including his stunning signature ‘take off’ shots Five years ago, at summer’s end, Andrew Fuse...
Predicting the last frost is tricky, so start your seeds off under cover
Many vegetables can be started off indoors or in a propagator now – and planted out once the risk of freezing to death is finally over After what feels like the longest and coldest winter I c...
A new world of gardening advice is opening up on social media
Fancy having a go at bonsai? Look online Ten years ago I found myself filming in a sleepy suburb of Chang Mai, northern Thailand, making a television series on the world’s most expensive ingre...
Ready, steady, sow! The start of the growing season
Welcome March, the true beginning of the gardening year March! The start of the gardening year. Allotmenteers trickle back, attracted by the light and an itch for sowing seed. It’s the month...
Warmer UK weather adding to spread of fruit tree diseases
Royal Horticultural Society links spread of orchard infections to heatwave with trees still at risk The UK’s fruit trees are under threat as a result of the climate crisis because plant disea...
It doesn’t need to face south! 10 of the biggest garden myths debunked
Is pampas grass only for swingers and can you ignore cacti? We separate the weeds from the chaff • 10 house myths debunked In our warming climate, that blazing, south-facing garden may now s...
Dwarf irises bring colour and glamour to the start of spring
If the snowdrop is a Victorian nightie, an iris is a cocktail dress that offers a dollop of pizzazz on a colourless March morning Every year, it’s the same: I am caught out by the violet flas...
UK droughts already threaten disastrous breeding year for frogs
Spawning sites in east and south-west will need unusually wet spring for tadpoles to survive The recent warm spell brought the first sightings of frog spawn in Bedfordshire, but amateur recorde...
Eagerly awaiting the arrival of frogspawn | Brief letters
Pond life | No shortage of tomatoes | Mark Spencer | Johnson’s jugs | Letter getter My family suggests that my frogspawn records over the last 15 years are a sign of eccentricity, so I was de...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/waiting-first-frogspawn-of-spring