Sowing & Growing Indoor seed sowing – peat-free compost, worm casts and mole hills 7th February 2022 As well as making my own compost, I buy all kinds of different peat-free composts…
Soil & Nutrients Fertiliser from Lightning Bolts and Crimson Clover 9th April 2019 If you’re anything like me you will no doubt relish a good thunderstorm for its…
Soil & Nutrients Bone meal, a gruesome fairy-tale fertiliser? 18th January 2019 Ever wondered what the Jack and the Beanstalk giant meant when he said “I’ll grind…
Soil & Nutrients Zoo Poo – an exotic manure for the garden or allotment 30th January 2018 Last summer we took the children to Woburn Safari Park. Driving around at 2 mph…
Health & Outdoors Glyphosate (Roundup) weed killer – should you use it? 13th January 2017 At two recent allotment committee meetings the subject of ‘weed killer use’ has come up…