Digging Deep in the Garden: Book Four

Gardening with your gut instincts... growing your own edible resilience... why money cant buy the good life... unpicking media delusions about peat use... kicking our addiction to oil in our gardens... the compelling power of asking questions. In this diverse insightful and engaging collection of essays exploring gardenings place in nature John Walker exposes illusions debunks myths and wipes away greenwash rallying us to challenge and change the over-consuming nature-indifferent approach to gardening as usual.This fourth and final book of Johns earth-friendly garden writing originally published in Kitchen Garden magazine as his popular and long-running series Digging Deep includes Kicking the habit which won the Garden Media Guild Environmental Award in 2010.John Walker has been growing plants since he could walk holds the Kew Diploma in Horticulture and is an award-winning gardening and environment author writer blogger and micropublisher. Despite occasional squirrel-fuelled frustration he is enjoying eking a new earth- and climate-friendly garden from a once bracken-riddled hillside at his home in Snowdonia North Wales.