The Healthy Soil Project #3: Plant power

Plants are incredibly fertile – grass, dahlias, nettles, parsley, plantain, borage, buttercup, comfrey, dock, shrubs, trees – you get the picture, all plants! Just by being there and growing they are improving soil and the health of all the other plants around them. Take fertility next level with a bigger range of plants, a few […]

How To Mulch Fruit Trees

Fruit trees, on the whole, do best with a living mulch, which is simply a covering of plants as in the photo above (yes that includes grass and weeds!) A living mulch is not only super fertile, but its loads easier for you too – read more about it here. There’s a time and place […]

June in the Vegie Patch, How to Mulch Fruit Trees + Honey Butter Apples

This month I’m diverted from the Healthy Soil Project in response to questions about mulching fruit trees. When I realised I didn’t have this info on the website, I just had to remedy it because mulching time is nigh and so I bring you How to mulch fruit trees – hot off the press: the […]

The Healthy Soil Project #2: Sort Drainage + Compaction

For soil to be in good health, water and air and roots must be able to easily flow through. When they cannot because of compaction or poor drainage, soil health never quite lands. Compaction is generally an easy fix, and mostly drainage is too – though not always. For gardens on a high water table, […]