Digging Deep in the Garden: Book Two

Putting the brakes on runaway consumerism through freegardening... rethinking our addiction to high-dependency container gardening... exploring our growing prospects in a topsy-turvy climate... why pulling down garden fences can reboot biodiversity... how local and diverse earth centres could help gardening communities flourish... In this thought-provoking cage-rattling collection of essays exploring gardenings place in nature John Walker burrows deep into gardenings subsoil to uproot thorny issues while encouraging gardeners to see their role as a force for good.This second book of Johns earth-friendly garden writing was originally published in Organic Gardening magazine as his long-running and popular series Digging Deep.John Walker has been growing plants since he could walk gained the Kew Diploma in Horticulture and is an award-winning gardening and environment author writer and blogger. 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.