Weekend Reading 10/13/23

Welcome to Garden Center magazine's Weekend Reading, a weekly round-up of consumer garden media stories meant to help IGCs focus marketing efforts, spark inspiration and start conversations with consumers.

This week: Garden like the French, experience botanical anarchy, catch some moonlight and quell eco-anxiety with community gardening.

'Gardening like the French' is the foolproof way to produce a large harvest in small gardens and backyards, Livingetc

This explainer breaks down French intensive gardening, also known as biodynamic gardening, which started in 16th-century France to produce a lot of yield in less space. By using methods such as deep digging, raised beds, close spacing, sun exposure and companion planting, farmers were able to produce a healthy and substantial crop. If you want well-drained, well-aerated and fertile soil to grow the healthiest vegetables, fruits and flowers in the smallest of spaces, Livingetc says French intensive gardening is a must-try.

Watch: Learn About Moon Gardens, the Permaculture Solution for Night Owls, Yahoo News

Writer Amanda Hoyer explains how to create moon gardens: carefully curated collections of plants that gleam in the dusk.

‘I call it botanarchy’: The Hackney guerrilla gardener bringing power to the people, The Guardian

For author Ellen Miles, planting in public spaces is a radical act that’s about community ownership and belonging.

How community gardening could ease your climate concerns, The Conversation

One potentially more engaging and effective way to cope with the anxiety brought on by the climate crisis is community gardening, an activity where people come together to harvest and maintain plants and crops on designated plots of land.

Enjoy your reading, have a great weekend and we'll see you next week!