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Sarah Brown writes and edits the growing advice pages for Garden Organic, the national charity for organic growing, which aims to get everyone growing ‘the organic way’ through campaigning, advice, community work and research. She also writes a monthly organic growing advice column for Wicked Leeks. A committed and long-term organic gardener, Sarah also produces The Organic Gardening Podcast each month with grower Chris Collins, which was shortlisted for the Gardening Media Guild’s Podcast of the Year 2019.

Follow the series and share your own gardening tips on social media at #GYOWickedLeeks.

 

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    Ever wondered what kitchen scraps you can and can’t put on your home compost heap? March’s gardening column tracks the final link in the food waste chain.

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    How to feel good in February

    Prune while imagining fragrant summer evenings, turn the compost, prepare pots, and listen to the birds chatter at dusk, writes Sarah Brown in her monthly gardening column.

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    Old friends and new treats

    January's GYO column is all about choosing what to grow - a time of great excitement for any gardener and the chance to try new seed choices as well as old friends.

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    Thinking outside the box

    December’s GYO Wicked Leeks column is all about how to put your festive cardboard packaging to good use in the garden.

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    Don’t be a tidy gardener

    November's Grow Your Own Wicked Leeks gardening column is all about how to ignore the urge to tidy gardens as many wildlife species prepare their nests for winter.

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    The dark secrets of leafmould

    This month’s GYO Wicked Leeks column explores how autumn leaves make one of the best free soil improvers.

    By Sarah Brown - 2nd October 2020

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    'When we whistle, you jump'

    As we became employee owned and I renounced control, protection of suppliers was written into our founding documents; last month, this was crystalised into a new Supplier Charter.

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    Environmental journalist Anna Turns weighed her household waste after a week before setting a mission to reduce it with the help of tips and tricks from food waste experts.

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    Caterpillars and tackling the biodiversity crisis

    A caterpillar spotted while gleaning a field for leftover crops sparked a conversation around the connection between species, writes Chantelle Norton.

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