The Summer Garden Recovery Guide

Practical advice for helping your garden recover after heat, drought and a difficult summer

Free

A difficult summer can leave a garden looking tired, stressed and sometimes rather worse than we expected. The temptation is to rush in with water, feed, pruning and replacement plants, but recovery often needs a little more thought.

The Summer Garden Recovery Guide is a practical guide to assessing what has happened in your garden and deciding what actually needs your attention.

It looks at watering after prolonged dry weather, lawns, stressed plants, pruning and cutting back, feeding, soil recovery and deciding when a plant really has been lost — and when it may simply need time.

The aim isn't to make the garden look perfect again overnight. It's to help it recover properly and to learn something from the way it has responded to a difficult summer.

Free digital download.

Marcus Bergin

Thoughts, observations and conversations from a life spent in gardens.

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