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Always Ask Questions
To turn gardening greener, we all need to start joining up the dots. Let’s make a start by getting dumbfounded manufacturers falling off their seats. By John Walker. Published in Kitchen Garden, December 2010. Although I don’t normally make a … Continue reading
Kicking the Habit
Oil spills and their impact on our planet’s ecology might seem faraway and remote, but one way of helping prevent them lies closer than you might think. By John Walker. Published in Kitchen Garden, August 2010. Winner of the Garden … Continue reading
Plastic Tears
Although plastic pollution is looking like an environmental time bomb, we can help defuse it by actually using more plastic in our gardens. By John Walker. Published in Organic Garden & Home, February 2009. Should you bump into me while … Continue reading
Renewable Gardening
Just how sustainable and climate-friendly your gardening is depends on what kind of sunlight you use to make it happen. By John Walker. Published in Organic Gardening, October 2008. What kind of sunlight are you running your garden on? It … Continue reading
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A Royal Shade of Green?
In an exclusive interview for Organic Gardening, I talk recycling, renewable energy and carbon footprints with Bob Sweet, the key decision-maker behind the Royal Horticultural Society flower shows, including the 2008 Chelsea Flower Show. By John Walker. Published in Organic … Continue reading
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I Don’t Need a Bag…
Amid a media frenzy over excess packaging, garden centres seem oblivious to putting the stops on plastic – and they’re giving us their own waste to dispose of too. By John Walker. Published in Organic Gardening, July 2007. It was … Continue reading
Relative Merits
As organic gardeners, we need to challenge attempts to use the growing criticism of organic farming to tarnish our impeccable credentials. By John Walker. Published in Organic Gardening, May 2007. Organic gardening has a problem, and it’s called organic farming. … Continue reading
