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Gardening
The buds and the bees
Before you squash that bee, think – it’s been estimated that, without it and its billions of little cousins, it would cost the UK £1.8bn every year to hand-pollinate crops.
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Divide and rule
May isn’t just the time to plant and enjoy the flowers of late spring; it’s also a time to clean up, cut back and lift and divide many plants which have already passed their peak.
The dahlia news
Dahlias can be as fiery as an inferno but they’re also big softies – the slightest frost will have them collapsing in a miserable heap.
Insider dealing
They sit there, quietly, minding their own business. Trying to please. Whatever the circumstances.
Himalayan garden hits heights
There’s an annual blossoming taking place in a quiet corner of Wensleydale.
Land of the giants
Fancy winning fame and fortune? Well, now’s your chance because following the success of their previous pumpkin-growing and pumpkin-carving competitions, seedsmen Thompson & Morgan are throwing down the gauntlet again.
A place to put down some roots
Tamara Hall, 37, managing director of Molescroft Farms Ltd, based at Molescroft Grange near Beverley, realised that demand for allotments far outstrips the availability of land. She explained: “I was chatting to a couple of friends – one from Leeds and one from London – who both said they’d been wanting allotments for years but couldn’t even get onto the waiting list because there was such high demand. I thought that perhaps there was a similar need in Beverley and, I discovered that there were 300 people on the waiting list and some had been waiting for seven years.
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Weather for Yorkshire
Saturday 26 May 2012
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Temperature: 9 C to 21 C
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