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Spring is here!

Spring is here!

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Top ten signs of it in your garden • Spring has sprung, and the RSPB has created a list of ‘top ten signs of spring’ that you can see from your own home! • Join in the conversation #NatureIsOpen • Connection to nature has a positive impact on both physical health and emotional wellbeing. Spring is now here, and there…
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Bonfire Safety for HibernatingWildlife

Bonfire Safety for Hibernating Wildlife

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Spare a thought for your garden wildlife before lighting that bonfire on Nov 5th With the approach of November 5th and the need to dispose of seasonal garden waste such as hedge cuttings and leaves, bonfires are a common sight in autumn. Bonfire night is a great opportunity for families and friends to get together around a fire and share…
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Less is more:making your home and garden nature-friendly this autumn

Less is more: making your home and garden nature-friendly this autumn

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Beth Markey, spokesperson for the RSPB, offers some top tips on how to help the wildlife that calls our autumn gardens ‘home’ Welcome to Keats’ “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”. Autumn’s early morning nip is upon us, evident in nature’s seasonal perfume of mulching vegetation and fattening conkers, and the occasional crunchy leaf underfoot. In light of the changing…
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Seven tips to help hungry hedgehogs survive

Seven tips to help hungry hedgehogs survive

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Gardeners are being encouraged to look after hedgehogs this autumn as numbers continue to fall. Outdoors experts from GardenBuildingsDirect.com have researched ways British hedgehogs can be supported in gardens as young hoglets emerge this year. Last year hedgehog numbers stood at just one million, considerably lower than the 30 million recorded in the 1950s. Yet helping young hedgehogs is not…
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Share your patch with wildlife and you’ll both reap the benefits

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We are all aware of the increasing need to incorporate areas for wildlife in our gardens and green spaces for the greater good and this needn’t be a choice between having a wild, nettle laden area or maintained lawns and borders. You can provide for wildlife in all ways including vegetable patches as the benefit gardeners can gain from sharing…
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Worms you don't want

Worms you don’t want

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The invasive New Zealand flatworm is entrenched in the north of the country, and slithering south. Gaby Bartai talks to the research team who are on its track By the time you find your first New Zealand flatworm, it’s too late. Lurking under stones, planks or pots, they keep a low profile, but they are impossible to eradicate and their…
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Garden amphibians drying up

Garden amphibians drying up

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Results from the RSPB’s 2018 wildlife survey reveal that garden amphibians are becoming rarer The results from the RSPB’s 2018 wildlife survey, conducted as part of the Big Garden Birdwatch, reveal that sightings of garden amphibians are becoming rarer. Frogs were reported in over three-quarters of gardens across the UK – but despite being the most common non-bird garden visitor,…
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Go wild for worms!

Go wild for worms!

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Learn how you can help your garden worms to thrive Gardeners are being urged to create a more welcoming habitat for worms in this year’s Wild About Gardens challenge from the RHS and The Wildlife Trusts – Go Wild for Worms. The UK has 29 species of worm, and they are vital for good soil structure and fertility, turning the…
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How gardeners can give hope to hedgehogs

How gardeners can give hope to hedgehogs

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Find out the latest news on our prickly pals, an update on Scottish squirrels, and more gardening news in our subscriber-only section Hedgehog populations may be stabilising in urban areas. Picture: British Hedgehog Preservation Society The latest survey shows that UK hedgehog numbers are continuing to fall. ‘The State of Britain’s Hedgehogs 2018’, by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and…
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Snails, pumpkins, Halloween and hedgehogs – autumn's truly here!

Snails, pumpkins, Halloween and hedgehogs – autumn’s truly here!

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Read the latest fascinating seasonal news snippets… just for subscribers to Kitchen Garden! Why not sign up and enjoy these extra treats?  RIP Jeremy the snail Below: Jeremy playing ‘uncle’ to one of the earlier babies. Above: The first picture of Jeremy’s babies. Pictures: Dr Angus Davison/The University of Nottingham There’s tragic news from Nottingham: Jeremy, the sinistral snail who…
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‘Hedgehog Housing Census’

‘Hedgehog Housing Census’

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First ever ‘Hedgehog Housing Census’ launched to help popular UK garden residents. The UK’s housing crisis is often high on the news agenda, but this August, a more rustic type of accommodation, home to the UK’s smaller, spikier residents, is taking the spotlight. Today, 15 August 2017, the first ever national Hedgehog Housing Census has been launched by Hedgehog Street,…
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Kids want to see real wildlife

Kids want to see real wildlife

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A new poll, conducted just after the release of the John Lewis Christmas advert #BusterTheBoxer, reveals that an overwhelming majority of children aged 8 to 15 feel happy being outdoors, seeing wildlife and visiting wild places. However, it also discovered that many children have never seen three of the four wildlife species featured in the ad. The poll of over…
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