Gardening book - Ken Thompson
I'm three quarters of the way through a book titled 'An Ear to the Ground' by botanist Ken Thompson. In addition to having an excellent knowledge of plants he writes with enthusiasm and a good deal of humour. This book was the first I'd heard of him, he takes a common sense approach to gardening while poking fun at botanists. I'll certainly keep a look out for any other publications of his

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Ive got the garden Myths book, that’s good, I’ve saved a lot of time by following some of things he says.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/9946017/Using-crocks-to-help-containers-drain-A-potty-idea.html
Phases of the moon.
'There are over a hundred different books on the subject of the Moon and gardening, so I will go into a few other aspects. It's indisputable that the Moon influences life on Earth. The evidence most commonly cited is the tides. The Moon and the Earth both orbit around a common centre of gravity. The Moon exerts a pulling force on the sea, creating a small bulge, or wave peak, of about 30 centimetres. On the side of the Earth facing away from the Moon, a second wave peak is formed, but here it is created by centrifugal forces - the outward pull felt by a spinning object like a carousel. As the Earth spins throughout the course of the day, the wave bulge moves across the surface of the Earth, always on the side facing the Moon, and so does the corresponding bulge on the opposite side of the planet.'
'And so the water washes up higher on the beach or pulls away from the shore as this bulge passes by. The rise of the seabed towards the coast means that a minuscule wave bulge might be exacerbated by several metres, depending on the terrain, so that when the tide is in, for example the North Sea coast, a stretch of beach several kilometres deep can disappear beneath the salt water.'
Here...
'Now, you might not think that your garden is affected by tides. Well, in fact, the Moon's gravitational pull tugs at not only the sea water but also the Earth's crust. Over the course of the day, your garden can bob anywhere between 60-80cm up and down without you noticing it. These movements are on such a huge scale and so consistent that they can only be discerned with complicated measuring devices.' To here.
So maybe there is something to gardening by the Moon after all?