Allotment Garden

I have bought quite a few seeds from the Real Seeds Catalogue but maybe I should have tried a little harder to buy heritage seeds. http://...

I am attempting to create a Terra preta type soil using lump barbecue charcoal.  (Have a look at the links on the right to see the Terra pre...

The judges for the allotment competition came back to see my allotment again today.  I think that they were interested in the sweet peas but...

I have said in several of the previous posts that I use comfrey, sweet cicerly and  nettle teas to inoculate charcoal.  I also use them as ...

The Terra preta experiment that some of us here in the UK have started is about growing better soil.       I don’t think that the produ...

With the warmer temperatures, I have eventually been able to move the black currants to their new home.  They have all had inoculated carcoa...

Moving the blackcurrants is not a difficult job.  It is just a little time consuming.  They are relatively shallow rooted plants and taking ...

I went to the garden centre to have a look to see what onion varieties they  had in their seeds.  I think that I am going to stick to the tr...

I usually sow sweet pea seeds in the autumn.  October seems to be the best month.  I do not nick, sand or any other way mutilate the seed.  ...

I have had my allotment for 28 years now and still enjoying every minute of it. I completed digging this week and now the interesting part...

I am very sure that fungi have something to do with the very strange phenomena of Terra preta soil increase.  The film says that the soil r...