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Did you know that the first organised landfill was happening c5000 years ago in Crete? Now we’re running out of landfill space at a frightening rate, it seems crazy not to compost kitchen & garden waste, thereby reducing the quantity of material needing landfill. Compost (organic matter) added to soil improves the condition of the soil; promoting better food crops and ornamental plants.
Not many of us can aspire to a greenhouse of a style like those at Kew Gardens. Those are serious glasshouses! But a few of us manage something more mundane – a lean-to temporary plastic one for over wintering tender perennials and starting seeds, perhaps; a window sill with a propagator precariously perched upon it; or you may be lucky enough to own a fully fledged glasshouse.
This, the first of the weekly, Saturday ‘official’ Plews blog posts, as distinct from our articles, ‘just sprouted’ and e-newsletters, et cetera, should set the tone for all others. But that feels like the ‘cookie cutter’ approach and we don’t do that in the gardens we design so why would the blogs follow a ‘one size fits all’ pattern?
So, our blogs will cover garden, horticultural, environmental, design, conservation, flowers, trees and related subjects. The ‘tone’ will variously be educational, informative, humorous, scientific, creative and random.
We hope you will find enough of them sufficiently interesting to come back more than once; so, gentle reader, let us begin...
