Anna Williams from Jacksons Fencing has some advice on getting your garden ready for winter From late summer onwards, it’s time to start getting your garden winter ready. While high winds have the potential to cause immediate and dramatic damage, if you’re not prepared, even damp and frost can cause issues. Plants Make sure to clean your greenhouse windows so…

In a case that could turn the tide against the world’s most common weedkiller, a jury in San Francisco has found that agrochemical company Monsanto knew that its Roundup and RangerPro weedkillers were dangerous, and acted with ‘malice’ by failing to warn consumers. The lawsuit was brought by school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, who regularly used RangerPro and was diagnosed with…

Amphibious tractors do battle with an aquatic invader at Claremont In an extreme case of weeding, amphibious tractors are this week tackling almost 16 tonnes of invasive weed in the lake at the National Trust’s Claremont Landscape Garden. The vehicles, an amphibious cross between a tractor and a tank, are armed with giant rakes to remove the carpet of Crassula…

‘Gardeners often forget to weed but weeds never forget to grow,’ says Tertill’s crowdfunding page. Weeds getting on top of you? What you need is Tertill, a solar-powered robot which lives in your garden and does all your weeding for you. ‘Gardeners often forget to weed but weeds never forget to grow,’ says Tertill’s crowdfunding page. ‘We all intend to…

An essential go-to reference for any organic – or would-be organic – gardener. The excellent new edition of John Walker’s Weeds: An Organic, Earth-Friendly Guide to their Identification, Use and Control, which was featured in the January issue (read an extract on pages 54–56), is still available to KG readers at the special price of £14 plus £3 P&P. An…