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Joe Sugg 'GROW'

GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
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Just finished reading this lighthearted yet meaningful book. Joe now aged thirty has taken a deep interest in gardening. The book deals with what happens when you switch off your phone or computer and go outside  improving your mental health. 

I wanted to read it to understand how young people get into gardening today. I hope that this book will inspire other thirty somethings and also OAP,s like me 
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Just to add Joe Sugg does mention that he uses on line sites to help him with his gardening questions. I wonder if he has discovered The GW forum.Lots of help here for you Joe!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    You should be doing the marketing for this site @GardenerSuze 😉
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @amancalledgeorge If there is a new gardening book out there I'm checking to see if the library has it. I did have alot of Gardening books in the past but realised many had become out of date with the advice. Information on when to carry out certain jobs and when to plant  has become more challenging, being in contact with real gardeners is the best insight into what is going on. 

    I recently read Alan Titchmarsh's 'Chatsworth' the best gardening book I have read this year.
    I own just one gardening book Dan Pearson Natural Selection. I have read it many times.
    Not a gardening book but The Lost Rainforest of Britain by Guy Shrubsole has also been an interesting and urgent read. 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Good on you @GardenerSuze too many have discounted Tichmarsh as a wanna be TV celebrity but he does have interesting insights to offer. Will look out for it, do rather like the gardens at Chatsworth and always makes you wonder what those lost greenhouses would look like in situ.
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited December 2023
    @amancalledgeorge I visited Chatsworth in the autumn not long after the book was launched. They had signed copies for sale £35.00. There were four copies in the Notts Library system and I read one of those. It takes you from Bess of Harwick right up to the new plans proposed for the Arboretum. With photos by Jonathan Buckley it is a beautiful book.
    If you go on to Jonathan Buckley's web site lots of Chatsworth photos including all the new work by Dan Pearson and Tom Stuart Smith.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Thanks for info!
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
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