Country Gardener.

I 'think' there are 4 or 5 editions each one covering a different county but all in the south west. The basic info is the same in each mag. just the gardens open and garden clubs etc. that changes. I send info to them on growing with the moon.

I've brought one or two of them home too Fluff.
In the back there are a lot of small nurseries advertising (amongst other places) , which is always useful to know.

Do you MG? I'll keep an eye out for your stuff then. I must say Goy has made me take more notice of different ways of gardening such as growing with the moon...didn't realise they were only a south west publication.

There's loads of adverts Louise,,,have you seen the one about composting even your cooked food? Might look into that. Thought we might go to Compton Acres too & take in Brownsea Island on the same day...haven't been to either for yonks.

I've not seen that composting article, sounds intriguing !

I think Compton Acres is somewhere that Spritz goes quite often, i've not been there before.

Pity its not up here too! I'll keep an eye out, & let you know if theres anything similar!

Fluff - we dont get any magazines here in Northern ireland, what a fabulous idea though.

Madperth - so far as I know it is only in that one area of England. They have to include a lot of adverts in order to cover the cost of production. We considered advertising the moon growing book but decided against as circulation was not big enough to justify their charges.

It rarely is, MG! Even our local paper charged the earth to advertise a CHARITY concert for us last year! It wasnt worth it!
But there might be something along the lines here, no harm in looking out for it! :~)))

The composting thing is an advert Louise for a compnay...www.smartsoil.co.uk...they say you can even compost meat & fish. They're £300 - £400 & have 2 compartments that rotate & rot food down without attracting rats etc...supposedly.

I don't think i'd like that rotting down in my garden but i quite understand that folks want to compost as much as possible.

Hum, I don't mind putting small amounts of cooked veg. in the compost but meat and fish? Anyway any left over meat and fish in our house gets turned into soup or another meal. Bones go in stock pot or pressure cooker and wonderful stock for more soup. Do folk really throw away cooked meat and fish?

Beats me Moongrower !

Yes they do Mg...tons of the stuff ,,,makes you wonder how they can afford to waste so much.

I was brought up not to waste any food, guess that being born a few years after WW2 ensured that everything was used one way or another. The total nonsense, in my opinion, of something like and apple having a sell by date just makes me laugh.

Our son grates any odd crusts of bread and freezes to use for stuffings and the like - must admit they go to the birds in our house.

One of my friends is so canny she folds her butter wrappers into four and freezes them in a box. When she is going to make a cake or buns she takes one out and uses it to grease the pan.

Yep my mum taught me to do that!

And mine !

The waste has escalated since some supermarket smarta**e had the idea of 'use by' dates - it's made them squillions in extra profit over the years.

Madperth - persuade your local paper to publish a short piece about your event instead of paying for an advert. You can get more info included and it's FREE. I find the best way is to ring them up and talk to one of their reporters and offer to send them a photo as well. They may not publish the photo but they usually write a piece and include it for you

I've not seen it up here either.

Thanks Andrew, I'll take note of that for our next event!

I haven't seen that mag Ffluff. Maybe it's only found in the English regions. It's a good idea and sounds interesting.

Normally on gardening magazines it says you can order them on yearly subscription. Type into the net for the web site. I only lost a fuchsia last year because of the snow, other than that I have lost nothing. I do buy plants that are low on watering now , as I am on a water metre. I only water when I see plants drooping as most plants will go down for water, its only top rooted plants, which I have few of get watered. Here is their site and phone number http://www.countrygardener.co.uk/

Morgana this is a free mag. so I doubt you can take out a subscription

Hi All, just checked and there are now eight editions of Country Gardner: Cornish, Cotswold, Devon, Dorset, Norfolk, Somerset, Suffolk and Wiltshire... so look for your free mag. in those areas :-)

Just want to add that the Cotswold Gardener - usually free @ garden centres - is great. But maybe that's a different kettle of fish altogether. I don't even live in the Cotswolds, but it's still a lovely read. No colour pics, just like a mini newspaper really.

I've seen sample copies of several of them and thought they were good too... As Weeding says not glossy and no colour pix. but lots of info. Weeding they al follow the same format, just have different local info.

Thanks for all your comments...& your research Moongrower...it's a fab little 'newspaper'!

Okay I reckon we could start our own little 'newspaper' on this site Ajay & Peter how about a way we can put up advice to a set page or pages... obviously it would need moderating to make sure some wakko wasn't posting garbage. We've been there done that very recently - sigh. I've some ideas so PM me.