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Bounty on a budget

It can be hard keeping plants happy through climate-change-induced heatwaves, but we’re sharing strategies to help your plants cope without costing the Earth

Dreamy evenings pottering among your plants, the sun still warm on your shoulders and all the fresh-picked, garden-raised food you can eat – it’s beginning to feel a lot like midsummer, quite the nicest time to be a veg gardener.

There are a few clouds in that azure-blue summer sky though. It can be hard work keeping plants happy through climate-change-induced heatwaves, so this month we’re sharing climate-proofing strategies to help your crops cope without costing the Earth.

Sowing wisely keeps your harvests on

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