Stinging nettle is the food gardeners, best mate. Loaded to the brim with minerals and vitamins, at service to the plant kingdom entire, and you and I also – a little wilted nettle with a fried egg is a fine spring breakfast. Amazing at anytime in its cycle for foliar feeds, but when nettle is […]
Don’t Mow – Let It Grow!
By | LastUpdated November 1, 2022
Once the kids have gone and cricket games are no longer, you may wish to pause and ponder the usefulness of your lawn. If no compelling reason other than tidiness comes to mind, let me suggest you plant it up or let it go. Either way you’re adding to your homegrown mulch stash, improving the […]
October in the Greenhouse
By | LastUpdated September 27, 2024
There’s a gradual take over happening in the October greenhouse as new crops of tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, courgette, cucumber dwarf beans + basil are planted out amongst finishing winter salads, bok choy, spinach + celery. Get a living mulch on the go Companion plants to draw predatory wasps, hoverflies and bees, are important in the […]
How to Transform Heavy Clay
By | LastUpdated August 23, 2024
Winter is a telling time in your soil health journey – from now through early spring you get to see your drainage in action. Those of you at the basemap phase of gathering info and learning your land – perk your ears on up! How wet are your soils? Drainage is absolutely key for plant […]
