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1. Get out on Boxing Day – and plan for next year
Get Wokingham, Friday 19 December 2008Christmas is a bustling time of year but there should be a chance on Boxing Day to get outside and at least look at the garden.
2. A holly bad show means a berry bad Christmas
Get Wokingham, Friday 12 December 2008Sometimes even in the smallest garden there are secret places that are seldom visited. I have a path at the side of my house which I see every week in summer when the lawns have to be mowed.
3. Get in a pickle for Boxing Day zing
Get Wokingham, Monday 08 December 2008Pickles and preserves help to give the cold cuts on Boxing Day an added zing.
4. Stews to cut the bills
Get Wokingham, Monday 08 December 2008‘No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November’.
Thomas Hood might have added to a 2008 version of his poem... no money.
5. Gardening with the credit crunch
Get Wokingham, Friday 05 December 2008The credit crunch is affecting everyone but it will hit the garden in different ways because there are two distinct kinds of gardener.
6. Small firms urged to claim handout
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 03 December 2008Every small business in Reading will receive a letter this week urging them to see if they are entitled to a helping hand.
7. Great gift – huge tub of blood, fish and bone
Get Wokingham, Friday 28 November 2008Having perused some of the Christmas gift ideas for the gardener in your family in the supplements and magazines, I wonder if I am really a gardener at all.
8. School in shock after death of popular Stewart
Get Wokingham, Friday 21 November 2008Staff and pupils at an Earley school were in shock this week after learning of the death of 13-year-old pupil Stewart McEwan on a school trip in Wales.
9. MP backs local papers against BBC
Get Wokingham, Friday 21 November 2008The Reading East MP has struck a blow for local newspapers in his opposition to the proposed £68 million network of local BBC video news websites.
10. My festive berries are being eaten by fat pigeon
Get Wokingham, Friday 21 November 2008Gardening at this time of year is a bit like housework where you save yourself extra effort if you tidy as you go.
