Gardening in a Drought

Given the conditions during recent summers, I'm increasingly asked about gardening under drought conditions. If you'd like to find out more, you've come to the right place!

Included below are all my articles on this topic, as well as details about how I might be able to help you directly with a drought gardening one to one. If you are a member of a local gardening or community group - you can find out here which of my gardening talks might be best suited to helping with gardening ideas and inspiration during drought years.

Recent Drought Gardening Articles

Marigolds shining in the sun, while in the background wilted vegetables cool down under shade netting

Growing Vegetables in a Heatwave

Growing vegetables in a heatwave is certainly a challenge. On extremely hot days, young plants are often sweating out more moisture than they can draw up through their newly planted roots. How can we help them get established?

The Quiet Inspiration of Trees

It’s been a tough year. It feels a little like our gardens form a metaphor this year for the world outside, for the political upheaval, for the stories of flash floods and forest fires. Outside of the human world and the wider environment, in the microcosm of the garden, communities of plants are also in turmoil. Some are thriving despite another hot and dry summer season. Others, just like many human communities right now, or like many of us as individuals, are facing their

Funny Weather - A Veg Grower's Guide

One of the first things people are talking to me about out in the garden this year is what funny weather we’ve been having. Closely followed by ‘the slugs are wreaking havoc for me, how about you?!’ While heat waves have been raging elsewhere around the World, here in the UK, the summer has been unusually cold and wet. Seedlings have been slow to get started, plants have been stunted and slugs have indeed been leaving a trail of destruction in gardens everywhere. Well thought

Drought Gardening One to One

Our gardens need a lot of careful support during drought years. Get in touch with me for a personalised one to one session. Together, we can look at setting up your gardening routine so that you are caring for your plants and garden as best you can during these difficult times. We can work together to tend to frazzled beds and to set up sustainable water management features so that plants are better able to cope in future years. We can also discuss plant choices to replace those that have been unable to cope with more resilient options for future years.

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Talk Topic:
The Secret Life of the Soil

Helping plants cope with drought conditions is entirely reliant on nurturing a healthy, living soil. Find out more about this fascinating realm in my talk 'The Secret Life of the Soil'.

Learn about recent studies into plant to plant communication, how to cultivate self-feeding flower beds and how to harness healthy soil for increased drought tolerance and for plants with natural pest and disease repelling qualities.

This talk includes up to date science, along with tales from my own home project, bringing the near-dead and heavily compacted soil beneath a concrete covered farmyard back to life, creating from it a thriving garden, full of food, flowers and wildlife.

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