The Shrewd Gardener

For Clever Gardeners Everywhere

NASA – Fire at Fuel Storage Facility in Puerto Rico

I’m browsing the Earth Observatory pages at NASA, sparked off by another Twitter user. I thought this image of a fuel fire in Puerto Rico which happened in October 2009 was interesting. It shows the area affected by the incident which in the picture is about 140km long by 15km wide. Fire at Fuel Storage [...]

Christmas Garden Quick Quiz

Here is a quick quiz for Christmas time. See how well you do. Christmas Gardening Quiz » Free Online Quizzes

Copenhagen – was it all worth it?

Was the trip to Copenhagen worthwhile for all the nations that took part? Well, yes it was. Kyoto was a beginning, a start on the path towards working out some solutions to the problems caused by man made pollution. In Copenhagen the aim was to go further and include everybody in the collective responsibility for [...]

Gardening when you have disabilities

A few years ago I worked for a wonderful charity called the Disabled Living Foundation (DLF) which amongst many, many other things maintains a database of equipment for people with disabilities.  Actually the name of the charity is a bit misleading because they deal with just about every age group and the issues around overcoming [...]

London gripped by frost, at last.

OK, maybe ‘gripped’ is a bit strong but I was glad of my scarf and gloves this morning when I dropped the kids at school. The ponds were frozen in the local park and the water fowl were seen to be skating around. I a temperate climate such as in the UK we get used [...]

New Scientist debunks newspaper list of why global warming is natural

Check out this helpful online article by the New Scientist which cleanly debunks the top 50 of 100 ‘reasons’ why ‘Global Warming is natural’ published in the Daily Express recently.  As a casual reader it can be very difficult to make up your mind what to think about the climate debate. Newspapers always set themselves [...]

Blogging mistakes – WordPress 101

I’ve just fixed an issue with my blog. Being such a clever bod, I assumed wrongly as it turned out, that I would have instant mastery over WordPress. As a result I dropped the code for Google Analytics into my site templates and watched the results roll in. Then it stopped and it then took [...]

Start planning now for next years garden work

If you haven’t already started on preparations for next year then now would be a good time. It has been very mild and wet in the UK this year but that shouldn’t put you off from doing what you can. I’m busy topping up my compost with kitchen waste to keep things ticking over. The [...]

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    This is where I blog about my interest in gardening and ecology. There is always something to do in the garden all year round and as we have an inner city garden the tasks are a little different to rural spaces.

    I work as a software developer now but a few years ago I had my own gardening design and construction business.

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