"Mulched with gallows humour and ironical banter...shedloads of great advice about how to grow produce...I can see this book taking prize place on the shelves of a new generation of young gardeners." Ah thank you @The_Tablet and @JonathanTulloch! https://t.co/c3IwTifnrz

Niche gag for British readers of @TheEconomist who are also gardeners: the Lettuce has bolted.

3/3 Get rid of personal motor vehicles if you can – and if not keep hold of your existing vehicle for longer Make at least one life shift to nudge the system, like moving to a green energy, insulating your home or changing pension supplier

2/3 Eat a largely plant-based diet, with healthy portions and no waste Buy no more than three new items of clothing per year Keep electrical products for at least seven years Take no more than one short haul flight every three years and one long haul flight every eight years

What individuals like you and I can do to reduce our carbon footprint by 25%, right now, without having to wait for governments and big corporations to act. Though, yeah, they should also get their shit together. 1/3

Nice one! Liking the doublebubble greenhouse/cold frame/carry-caddy thing that’s going on here. Also it’s got nothing to do with our imminent nuclear destruction, which is a bonus.

This thread just purely makes me happy.

Imagine walking into Tesco for your weekly shop and finding row after row of nice, tidy, low maintenance shelves but without the food. You and your kids would starve. That's how Bees, Birds, Hedgehogs etc feel when they visit your plastic garden #TimeForTurf #DontBeAnEmptyTescos

Arses. https://t.co/qr1gNNaFUc

Large corporates saying they're "green" because they're filling farmland with monoculture, off-setting trees - we don't buy it. Loss of food-producing land leads to carbon-heavy imports instead. Supporting local, sustainable farms is the better choice.

Lookit this: plants are far less able to "move" their territories as a response to climate change if their local animal populations are decimated. Protecting biodiversity is as important as reducing carbon emissions if any of us are to have a future. https://t.co/M0KCZgupl0

Consumer boycotts work: they forced Barclays to stop its investments in South Africa’s apartheid regime in the 80s.

Toyota, Renault-Nissan, Hyundai-Kia and VW haven’t signed the agreement to sell only zero-emission cars by 2040. They need to think again: consumers should boycott the lot of them. #boycottVW #boycottToyota #boycottHyundai #boycottRenault

.@BorisJohnson #COP26 is coming: time for you to stop saying one thing and doing another. Reject the Cambo drilling permit, and show the world some proper leadership. #BorisStopCambo

Chart of the Day. Possibly chart of the year! 👏👏👏

Ah yes! Wouldn't it be great to walk down your street and see the front gardens full of food, instead of parked cars?

Gardening more often is good for you! Unless of course you f*** the tendon in your right elbow using a lump hammer to put in pea supports, switch to hammering with your left hand, then hit the back of your right hand with the lump hammer and drop it on your left foot. #sadbuttrue

We've got a crush on these joy-inducing visual minutes from Eden Project's Share the Joy of Growing webinar. Brilliant at getting over loads of info - but if you need more, the full grow-your-own advice sesh from us, @Kathryn_Welch_ and Patrick Hosey is at https://t.co/vMn7g1djdW

Oh FFS. You lot might all be at #wetherspoons celebrating the pubs opening, but tonight we will be in our polytunnel (unheated, filled with three months' worth of seedlings), wrapped in four layers of horticultural fleece and gently weeping.

This is just stone cold brilliant.