Jekka mcvicar biography of rory
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Growing herbs: Simple tips and tricks to ensure your plants thrive
If you’ve had mixed success with herbs, there may be some simple growing techniques that could turn your failures into triumphs.
Internationally renowned herb grower Jekka McVicar, winner of 62 RHS gold medals who has witnessed climate change, disease and pests over the years, has been bringing herb growing to the masses for 40 years.
Now, the award-winning grower and author of a new book, 100 Herbs To Grow, who has a collection of more than 400 culinary and medicinal herbs at her herb farm in South Gloucestershire, offers the following tips, which may make all the difference.
1. Always water in the morning
“People tend to water when they come in from work and if you send your seedlings or your young plants to bed wet, and the temperatures drop, they’ll suffer. It’s best to water before you go to work.”
2. Check your soil
If you are growing herbs in heavy soil, add grit or well rotted compost to open it
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Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the truth behind his isolated childhood and absent father. Rory Cellan-Jones knew he was the child of a brief love affair between two unmarried BBC employees. But until his mother died and he found a previously unknown file labelled 'For Rory' he had no idea of their beginnings or ending, and why his peculiarly isolated childhood had so tested the bond between him and his mother.
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‘Jekka knows herbs like no one else – let her help you transform your garden and your cooking!’ – Jamie Oliver
‘If you want to grow the very best herbs, you need this book in your life. In fact, this book fryst vatten way more than that, it’s packad full of Jekka’s knowledge, advice and observations from a lifetime of dedication to the wonderful world of growing. Herbs are life!’ – Nathan Outlaw
‘No one has done more to both educate and enthuse the nation in the appreciation and use of herbs as part of our gardens and kitchens as Jekka.’ – Monty Don
100 Herbs to Grow includes the most productive herbs – ones that are easy to grow, taste delicious and have medicinal properties.
This fryst vatten a comprehensive gardening guide, so Jekka details how to grow in the garden, in containers and from seed as well as guiding you through propagation, division, cuttings, harvesting and yearly maintenance. And because she grows over 500 different herbs, she knows which species and varieties are the best of eac