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Round-up 2016: Gardening with Mat Coward
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THERE’S always something new, something I’ve never heard of before. My Tiny Garden by Lucy Anna Scott with Lucy Conochie (Pavilion, £14.99) shows us how to make a mobile bog garden from a wheelbarrow and a bag of gravel.
I think that’s brilliant. It’ll cost little — or nothing, if you manage to scrounge the ingredients from skips or Freecycle — it’ll give great pleasure and when you move you can take it with you.
Alongside such projects, this book is full of case histories of people in towns and cities around the world who are determined to enjoy some gardening, despite having little or no space in which to do it.
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