Healthy sustainable food production on small spaces plus books and gardens
Sally is an experienced organic gardener, smallholder and writer. Here you can read about the organic one-acre plot and walled garden that Sally has set up at Empire Farm in Somerset. Sally blogs regularly about what's being grown and raised, her greenhouse, the organic allotments and her walled garden, as well as matters that concern her - climate change, healthy soils, organic growing, peatfree compost, biodiversity, sustainability etc. She writes about her visits to farms, gardens, allotments and growers during the year. You can also find out about her workshops that she runs from Empire Farm and the books she has written, including The Healthy Vegetable Garden, The Climate Change Garden and Living on One Acre or Less. She contributor to Amateur Gardening, Bloom and other gardening magazines.
A few twitter posts re lovely poinsettias got me thinking. Are they green? Should we buy them? What are their eco credentials? And why are phytoplasmas so important? So, a bit of background first. Poinsettias are a member of the
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Well, I for one didn’t! But thanks to a fascinating talk by Dr Glynn Percival of the University of Reading at the Organic Matters conference in Bristol I know a lot more now and will be using this knowledge to
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I’ve kept a couple of pots of nerines for some time, but didn’t really know much about them, so I grabbed a chance to visit the Nerine Exhibition at Exbury Gardens in Hampshire along with fellow Garden Media Guild members.
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I can hear you all shouting ‘of course save seed’ and as generations of gardeners have done, I diligently save seed each year because locally-adapted seed is best – or is it? I have saved parsnip seed for the last
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There must be a lot of ‘peat is best’ gardeners and growers around as they account for more than 60% of the peat bought in the UK. They claim there are no alternatives but there are plenty on offer. And
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It’s the height of the cut flower year and the new flower farm is looking simply fab! Wandering around it in August, its hard to believe that less than a year ago it was an overgrown, weedy pasture once used
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Love walking round the #organic #allotments on the one acre plot and seeing the ingenious #recycling and #repurposing of items on the beds – nothing goes to waste here. The eagle-eyed amongst you will be able to spot pallets, containers,
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There’s been a lot of tweeting around compost in recent weeks; the #peatfree campaign which is vital to saving our peat bogs, biodiversity, climate change and flooding; the risk of #aminopyralid contamination in manures and composts and the growing popularity
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Coming back from the one-acre plot the other evening, I noticed a comma butterfly flitting around an overgrown patch of brambles festooned in flower. Stopping to watch, I was mesmerised by the sheer wealth of insect life in this sunny
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One year on and I’m back a #RHSHamptoncourt. This year I went on the preview evening as well as the Tuesday to make sure I could get to see everything. If you want to see the show gardens, I would
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![📣 Thrilled to announce that I have a new book 📗 coming out on 21 March - The Resilient Garden and Allotment Handbook - published by @chelseagreenbooks
It's a revised and updated version of Healthy Veg Garden that was published a few years ago, with more focus on resilience in the garden, from soils and composting, to pollinators and natural predators, plus my ideas around floral diversity, polyculture, genetics & seed saving, water resilience and much more. It's all about future proofing your growing spaces.
Published in the style of a handbook, we've gone for black and white inside, which meant it could be printed in the UK on sustainable paper ....... and the price kept affordable at £16 ..... it really is jammed packed with information and not padded out with large glossy photos and fancy design features, so I think it's great value.
I hope you like the look of the revised edition 😍 and want to buy a copy .... available for pre-order ..... at the usual online shop [apparently pre-orders are really important for that all important algorithm!!!]
I am sure my publishers have some copies available for review .....
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