One
of the best things about working at StyleGardens is receiving
e-mails from the visitors to our website. It's fantastic to know
that there are people all over the UK reading our articles and
being interested enough to contact us with ideas of their own,
suggestions for future topics, questions relating to gardening,
and comments about our site.
Several
of you have come up with old-fashioned methods for many different
aspects of gardening - pest control, for instance, or how to judge
when itŐs best to put out the bedding plants in early summer.
Folklore or old wives' tales they may be, but there's an element
of truth in most of these tried and trusted pieces of advice.
GRASS
ROOTS....
Our
week at the Royal Welsh Show in July put us in contact with a
number of people from the local rural farming communities.
As
I chatted to one lady who was admiring the Geranium "Johnson's
Blue" in our garden, she told me that traditionally, farmers knew
that it was time to shear the sheep when the wild Geranium pratense
came into flower in the hedgerows.
This
makes a great deal of sense - after all, a job like this is dependent
on the weather, not a particular date, and plants are sensitive
to this.
We
thought it would be a wonderful idea to gather together as many
of these old gardening tips as we could and turn them into a feature
for the website, so that we can all benefit from some tried and
trusted advice.
If
you can think of anything to add to the list, please send us an
e-mail and we'll collect them all together for a later date.
Happy
Gardening!
