Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
VIDEO: Hackney Herbal founder Nat Mady on how to sow lettuce seeds
The local herb specialist shares her tips on growing your own food while stuck at home during the coronavirus lockdown
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘There is no waste in nature’
Kate Poland on how we can reduce rubbish in the garden
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘In nature, plants look after themselves, but people can forget, go away, or just give up’
Kate Poland’s guide to growing in small spaces, based on her first year as the gardener for an entire Hackney postcode
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Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘A lack of plant diversity means one in five species could be under threat’
Kate Poland on the biodiversity crisis, how individuals can plough their own furrow amid the seed industry’s oligopoly, and why sprouts are not just for Christmas
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘An urban garden at night brings wildness and community’
Kate Poland on how developments are disrupting the important balance of natural light and darkness for community spaces, why she’s happier knitting at night, and how a group of local gardeners have put the borough on the map in Europe
Read MoreHackney gardeners win Europe-wide award for work on Regent’s Canal
Members of the Wildlife Gardeners of Haggerston travelled to Austria last week to collect the prize
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘My friend’s dad used to say a garden is made in winter’
Kate Poland on how to use the cold months to renew your garden, why leaves should be left alone, and how growing spaces can help tackle food poverty
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘Turn dead, grey space into stepping stones for insects’
Kate Poland on green infrastructure and how we can make it work in Hackney and beyond
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘It’s time for the untidy to have a go’
Kate Poland on a budding union of gardens, the joys of shinrin-yoku, and how you can help nature while getting drunk
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Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘There’s no such thing as a pest’
Kate Poland on how to create a pest-resistant environment and setting the wheels in motion for a mobile shed in Hackney
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘We need to get used to weeds in the streets’
Kate Poland on mulching, plant dyes and the tension between wildlife and tidiness
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘I’ll put up with being labelled a vandal’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland on smashing up paving and sowing seeds
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘You don’t need a big space’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland has a few tips and tricks for growing in confined conditions
Read MoreOver 50 sign-ups for Hackney’s community garden manifesto – as council offers to meet organisers
Growers across the borough are uniting in an effort to protect open spaces from development
Read MoreHackney gardeners spring into action to bring nature’s tranquillity to the city
From a tropical backyard hideaway featured on tonight’s Gardeners’ World to community-run vegetable patches, Hackney residents are showing off their green fingers in the spring sunshine
Read MoreYoung Ideal-ists: Capel Manor student grabs gold in gardening contest
A student from Capel Manor College has won big in the Ideal Home Show’s Young Gardeners of the Year competition
Read MoreMarket gardens: the ‘ugly sisters’ of horticultural history
East London’s market garden scene was once a hotbed of commerce, where fruit, vegetables and exotic plants once flourished
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Read More‘Tis the season to get your Christmas greens
What can Hackney’s space-strapped growers do to bring some leafiness into their homes this Christmas?
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