Digging Deeper
Digging Deeper - End of series
5 November 2010
This KG series has now ended, the last article was published in the December 2010 issue. Past articles can still be viewed here on-line.
Digging Deeper: Always ask questions
4 November 2010.
To turn gardening greener, we all need to start joining up the dots. Let’s make a start by getting dumbfounded manufacturers falling off their seats.
Digging Deeper: Compost crisis
1 October 2010.
When well-known gardening pundits start proclaiming just how ‘awful’ it is that children should get their hands dirty when using ‘filthy’ potting compost, you know that something’s going seriously wrong in the world of compost manufacturing.
Digging Deeper: Drought of good sense
5 August 2010.
Are we really the ‘victims’ when hosepipe bans are announced – or just the unwitting pawns of a gardening industry running dry on ecological consciousness?
Digging Deeper: Kicking the habit
1 July 2010.
Oil spills and their impact on our planet’s ecology might seem faraway and remote, but one way of helping prevent them lies closer than you might think.
Digging Deeper: Gardening on the road
3 June 2010.
Our growing mania for having ‘one click’ gardens delivered in boxes is adding to the mounting pressures on the increasingly fragile world around us.
Digging Deeper: The peat delusion
6 May 2010.
As gardening spin urges us to keep buying peat compost, science is telling us that the safest place for peat is in the ground
Digging Deeper: Election special
5 March 2010.
With trust in status quo politics withering away, I present my manifesto for a brave, visionary and greener force fit for the dawning of a more earth-friendly era.
Digging Deeper: Strange bedfellows
5 February 2010.
Garden Organic’s plans to be co-opted by big business threaten to undermine the ecologically desirable tenet of frugality that organic gardening actually epitomizes, says John Walker.
Digging Deeper: Resilience gardening
7 January 2010.
Having a year-round supply of fresh food from your plot ought to help in weathering any shocks to ‘normal life’, but reality could be quite different
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