The first signs of summer disease are making themselves known – potential is high after our mild, wet spring. Cool your heels before rushing out to buy a big hitting fungicide and have a read about the bio-fungicide advantage. Bio-fungicides are a gentle, natural solution to disease – they do no harm. Traditional fungicides (copper, […]
How to Make Fermented Nettle Tea
By | LastUpdated December 1, 2024
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 […]
