A (gardening) life less plastic

January 16, 2017

One morning towards the end of last year some time, I skipped in to my garden as usual through the little …

Putting Biochar through its paces

October 7, 2016

I’m mostly a peat-free gardener: life’s too short and the world too precious to ruin a peat bog for beans …

November 8, 2009

Now, I’m generally quite a quiet person. I keep my head down, I work hard, I have fun with my …

September 17, 2009

We’ve had to pause in our pond-making activities (oh dear… another half-finished project…) since nine tons of aggregate turned up, …

December 19, 2008

The other week at my ever-challenging and interesting plant design course at Capel Manor, we got to talking about environmentally-friendly …