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AUGUST - GARDENER 2025 CLIMATE CHANGE OBSERVATIONS IN THE SUMMER GARDEN AND SOME SOIL IMPROVEMENT TIPS Late summer can be a very very warm months, even very hot in northern Europe, far too hot in southern Europe for gardens at 30-40 DEG we then have severe heat causing problems for all ‘temperate climate plants’ big or small.  Ideally, we require compensating rainfall and cooler nights which does not happen till much later in Autumn but by then the invisible damage can have b

SPRING GARDENER 2025   APRIL MAY - what a wonderful time of the year with every plant deciding winter is over.  Suddenly we are caught...