How green is your thumb?

July is gardening month at Create. We at the Post would like to help – even if all we can do is hand the real gardeners their trowels.

Check out your knowledge of the Edited Guide's gardening information. Fill in the blanks below.

1. From how to protect your favourite citrus tree to planting the perfect booby trap for slugs and snails, here you'll find all manner of ______ and ____ on how to make your neighbours go green with envy at your garden.
2. Gardens in the UK generally need around 2.5cms of _____ a week to keep plants healthy and growing well.
3. Of all the skills associated with the gardening arts nothing has come close to acquiring the same degree of mysticism and superstitious dread as ________.
4. Bats are protected by law in the UK, and are very rare in an urban garden. The easiest way to attract them is to grow night scented flowers, and follow all the suggestions on how to build a ________ garden, as this will attract the insects that they eat.
5. Another ____ _______ for caterpillars is an organism called Bacillus thuringiensis, which destroys the caterpillar from the inside.
6. The art of pruning living bushes and trees into fantastic shapes has been around for as long as formal gardening itself. Pliny the Elder described it in the 1st Century AD. The history of _______ provides a fascinating read ...
7. If you haven't got the room, or the cash, for a greenhouse, you can still grow ______ vegetables.
8. ________ gardening is the act of reclaiming empty and neglected spaces and illicitly transforming them into unofficial gardens by filling them with flowers, plants or sometimes fruits and vegetables.
9. ______ is a Japanese word that is used everywhere to mean a tree or shrub planted in a shallow container, and trained to look like a full-size tree.
10. When you consider what the most common garden creatures are, the snail or the slug, or one of the many insects that call the Earth home might spring to mind. However, it is more likely that the _____ is the most prevalent of garden inhabitants throughout the western – and perhaps entire – world.

Was your expertise blossoming, or did you need to dig for the answers? Click on the busy gardeners below for answers.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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