Category: Home & Garden
Title: Amateur Gardening
The new edition of Amateur Gardening magazine will provide readers with free seeds worth £1.85.
The Chinese lanterns could be the perfect thing to get Brits back out into the garden and greenhouse after a winter of snow, ice, wind, hail and rain.
Furthermore, the publication contains a number of top tips, including how to grow tuberous flowering plants, such as begonias, alpines and much more.
The magazine also contains advice for what to get up to this week, including getting the lawn in shape, pruning shrubs and bushes, making compost, attracting wildlife, growing spring bulbs and more.
Meanwhile, expert Alys Fowler, who now has her own TV show, unveils the secrets of an ancient Inca crop, while Alf Jones investigates the rainbow vegetable.
The Incan civilisation was renowned for its clever use of tiered crops, which were grown up the sides of mountains in the Andes.
Evidence of the utilisation of these microclimates is still in place today and visitors to South America can see numerous examples in Peru.
Posted by: Rebecca Kehoe
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