No, not us! Spring is definitely here with green shoots sprouting up all over the place – thankfully they’re not all weeds… The rhubarb is coming up really well and the raspberry canes are going mad, so we’ll be ok for puddings this year! Tonight we completed the weeding around all the crops, so it [...]

There are so many ants in Lisa’s wormery, more so than any other time… so we did a bit of reading up… Ants can be an indication that the wormery is too dry and we have noticed recently that that’s been the case – so we’ve sprinkled it with collected rainwater. Another tip was a [...]

Back up to the plot this morning, we bagged up the rubbish and dug a few more weeds out. We attacked the ants with Nippon powder, so hopefully they’ll move or die! Measuring up, the plot is in two sections: one is 5m x 5.8m, the other 5m x 3.75m (the previous owner still has [...]

Today we dug out the old veg – a row of leeks, a row of parsnips and various potatoes. Quite a few weeds and thistles were taken out too. Unfortunately we uncovered an ants’ nest as well, right next to our little grass path that goes up the middle of the plot, so they’ll have [...]