The Shrewd Gardener

For Clever Gardeners Everywhere

Do you really know what’s going on in your garden?

Today is beautifully sunny and bright. Ideal for pottering around the garden. I noticed yesterday that there are quite a few ladybirds (ladybugs, US) on the willow tunnel we built last year. They seem to be quite happy and I think they are going around eating the marauding insects that attack willows at this time [...]

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 [...]

Seen on the BBC website – Google trick tracks extinctions

This caught my eye a while back. The algorithm used by Google to work out rankings for pages has been applied (theoretically) to food webs.  the implication here is that if scientists can calculate the state of an ecosystem they will be able to work out whether the system is vulnerable to collapse. Of course [...]

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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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