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    Celebrate your homegrown produce this Diwali

    Our Heritage Seed Library horticulturalist Anish Mistry shares two recipes that use up all your lovely homegrown vegetables

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    Five ways to feed garden birds for free

    Feeding wild birds is a great way to encourage more of them into your garden and support them during the cold spell - but it doesn't have to cost the earth.

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    Our second Compost Demonstration Site is open!

    We're excited to launch another composting demonstration project in Cumbria.

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    Large scale bokashi experiment

    Master Composter Steve Griggs has been trialling a method that allows him to compost large volumes of materials using the bokashi method.

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    Experimenting with a winter green manure mix for gardeners

    Research Manager Anton Rosenfeld shares the results from our Members’ Experiment into winter green manures to see if multi-species mixes are more effective

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    We've been awarded the National Plant Collection for comfrey

    We're thrilled to have been awarded the guardianship of the National Plant Collection for comfrey by Plant Heritage.

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    The Organic Gardening Podcast - October

    In this month’s podcast, we chat to Pam ‘The Jam’ Corbin about making seasonal jams and chutneys from homegrown produce.

  8. How do you choose your potato varieties?

    As a nation of potato eaters, we can be very particular about growing the perfect spud. This year, we surveyed 180 people about how they chose their potato varieties...

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    Bee-killing pesticides found at "wildlife-threatening" levels in rivers

    New analysis has found a chemical cocktail of dangerous neonicotinoids in rivers around England

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    Chris Collins on…leafmould

    Leafmould is a natural bonanza, writes Chris Collins in his latest blog, as he shares how to make this valuable soil conditioner.