Chillis and tomatoes
A few weeks ago I visited the nursery of Sea Spring Seeds in Dorset. Before I launch into my visit, a bit of background for those readers who are not familiar with Sea Spring Seeds. The small nursery is located
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Healthy sustainable food production on small spaces plus books and gardens
A few weeks ago I visited the nursery of Sea Spring Seeds in Dorset. Before I launch into my visit, a bit of background for those readers who are not familiar with Sea Spring Seeds. The small nursery is located
Continue readingI visited the show on Thursday and was incredibly lucky with the weather, it being the only dry day of the week. The sun shone and the festival looked lovely. Compared with recent years, I felt it was very colourful, with
Continue readingLast summer I had the chance to visit the rewilded walled garden at the ground breaking Knepp Estate in Sussex. I have been keen to apply some of the principles of rewilding to my walled garden and jumped at the
Continue readingAs an ecologist, I love exploring salt marshes and shingle banks where conditions are truly extreme for plant and animal alike. It’s here that you find sea kale, thrift, yellow-horned poppy, sea lavender, sea pea, sea campion, sea blight and
Continue readingHere are a few top tips to help get you through the heatwave when you can’t use your hose pipe Prioritise the areas of the garden that need water – pots, newly planted trees, shrubs and other plants, the veg
Continue readingI’ve just planted out a row of 5 new perennial kale plants that I propagated last winter. These are Taunton Deane kale (or cottagers kale) which can grow up to 2m or more so will create a barrier between my
Continue readingAs a new gardener many years ago, all the books I read described growing vegetables in a rotation with neat, weed-free rows. But over the years, I have moved to a polyculture approach in which I grow a number of
Continue readingTo celebrate World Soil Day, I’m writing about soil regeneration. You hear this term tossed around but what does this mean and how is it achieved? Simply, soil regeneration means rebuilding soil organic matter and improving soil life. Many soils
Continue readingI’ve used biochar for many years after seeing the results of horticultural trials where it was mixed into potting compost. Seedlings grown with added biochar had healthy shoots and a better root system compared with those without. My own very
Continue readingFinally – its publication day for the Healthy Vegetable Garden!!! Huge thanks to all at @chelseagreenbooks in the UK and US for all their amazing work – really proud to be one of their authors.Thanks too to the people who
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