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After ghostwriting for a celebrity gardener for the Sunday Mirror, the Daily Telegraph, and Grow Your Own magazine, I decided to start publishing under my own name. As a former professor, one of my special skills is looking at complex research and turning it into succinct, engaging content for the lay audience. So I decided to focus on using this skill in the gardening space.

As such, I pitched the editor of 'Kitchen Garden' magazine with a mythbusting article that took common misconceptions and revealed the actual evidence for - and against these practices. 

It tackled things you've probably heard of yourself, even if you're not a keen gardener - things like putting used coffee grounds on your garden as fertiliser, adding rusty nails to compost to give plants an iron boost, and spraying plants with soapy liquid to get rid of green fly. Want to know whether these are good ideas? 

You can read my article below...!