GARDENING MYTHS DEBUNKED
When it comes to gardening advice there’s a lot of stuff and nonsense flying about, laid as thickly as the manure on our plots! Some of it is downright lies. Most of it, though, is simply oft-repeated myths whose origins are lost in the mists of time.
Some of this advice is so firmly entrenched it just isn’t questioned and appears in almost every gardening book. Garden writers and journalists just pass on the same-old mantras, blindly perpetuating these myths onwards to the next generation of gardeners. I’m afraid I’ve been sucked into the mythical quicksand a few times myself and must hang my head in shame – please forgive me, dear reader!
So let’s shine the searchlight of truth into every corner of our gardening lives. Let’s shake things up and free ourselves from the shackles of horticultural presumption. Read on and together we’ll explode some long-established gardening myths…
ADD CROCKS TO POTS
Our first myth is so engrained it feels disrespectful, blasphemous even, to question it! But… deep breaths… adding pieces of broken terracotta pots, known as ‘crocks’, as
