As you know we’ve been a bit slap-dash/fair-weather/downright lazy so far this year!! But yesterday we had a good old weeding and digging session and cleared a large section of our thistles, couch grass and other weedy enemies! We’ve topped with black bags, weighed down with some of the pulled up weeds – with this and [...]

The new Wiggly Wigglers catalogue arrived today… it’s great to see how much they can fit into a little catalogue (well, quite a big catalogue actually!). They have a very good website with loads of info, plus blog and a very popular podcast. Lisa’s wormeries both came from Wigglers – starting with a bog standard wormery, [...]

Our compost bin (the Darlek) has moved in! We took the easy option and plonked (sorry, placed) it on a grassy bit next to the herb garden. It was a bit wobbly, so we filled it with part of one of our makeshift compost heaps – it should be ok – and we plan to [...]