My 12-year old daughter sows a mini Wild Flower meadow in the garden every spring. It’s lovely to walk out of the kitchen on summer mornings and see it alive with bees, hover flies and countless other pollinators. Plus it costs pennies, demands zero maintenance and looks amazing.
Together with my daughter, I sowed a whole load of wild flower seeds in my garden last weekend. I usually put down slug pellets as the seedlings emerge to negate them being hoovered up by slugs and snails. But partly because it will hard to find slug pellets this year and partly because I'd like...