Yes! Yes, you can. Nature specialises in detoxifying and outcompeting pathogens. A compost heap is full of life, more than equipped for this job. Visualise a bunch of pac-men zooming about gobbling up the bad guys and you’re not far off it. Further biology enters the fray to decompose it all and return it to […]
3 Ways To A Living Mulch
By | LastUpdated October 29, 2024
Living mulch (covering the soil with plants), is the most nourishing mulch of all. A soil covered with plants is alive! Living on and in and around plant roots is a diversity of soil life forms – fungi, nematodes, protozoa, bacteria, arthropods and of course worms, these team up with plants and are the ultimate […]
An annual DIY Soil Test
By | LastUpdated April 30, 2025
Your soil is unique. It’s history and geography make it so. And because it’s unique, and because understanding your soil is at the heart of your garden’s health – you do well to get to know it. The best way to know it, is to test it. Yourself! With your very own eyes and hands […]
Managing Foodscraps: Easy Bokashi
By | LastUpdated May 20, 2022
This story begins on a sad note – Nellie, our beautiful kunekune pig, she in charge of foodscrap management, died. See you on the other side, my friend. As well as companionship (pigs are the best), she played an important part in the health of the garden – converting foodscraps into manure. A job she […]
