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A few jobs in the garden

The warm weather over the last few days has got me out in the garden doing a few jobs.  One of those is sorting out the loganberry.  A few years back the beast that is our loganberry bush went awol and we found most of it growing in the jungle of next door’s garden.  Since [...]

How to grow Schizandra Chinensis from seed

Please let me know if you have found a way to do it.  Everything I read about the plant suggests it would make a really useful addition to my garden as it meets my criteria for being both functional and attractive.  I’ve frozen it, soaked it, warmed it up and still those little hard nuts [...]

Seed sales soar in the US

Here’s an interesting article from the Financial Times today that talks about how sales of seeds in the US are growing massively in the face of the economic downturn.  I’m not one to wallow in the positive benefits of economic decline (I’m not sure there are many) but if this can help turn a new [...]