The chances are that your garden has been left unattended over the chilly winter. My own garden hasn’t had much attention since late November/early December when Christmas was looming large and so there were plenty of other distractions. The wet, snowy winter that set in at the beginning of the new year has slowed down [...]
If you haven’t already started on preparations for next year then now would be a good time.
It has been very mild and wet in the UK this year but that shouldn’t put you off from doing what you can.
I’m busy topping up my compost with kitchen waste to keep things ticking over. The huge [...]
The ideal is to be able to make one’s own lovely compost to feed the garden. This isn’t always so straightforward as you need to get the proportions right and get the correct micro-organisms to help you.
Composting is a complex process where different families of microbes get their nutrients from the contents of the compost [...]