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 [...]
I saw a Jay in London and it stayed still long enough for me to look closely at it.
This caught my eye a while back.
The algorithm used by Google to work out rankings for pages has been applied (theoretically) to food webs. the implication here is that if scientists can calculate the state of an ecosystem they will be able to work out whether the system is vulnerable to collapse.
Of course things change [...]
Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness is how Keats described Autumn. It’s nearly on us again and the signs are all around.
The wasps are out of their nests, seeking sugary nutrition. The new queen wasps are flying, looking for new homes for next year’s brood.
September means the Horse Chestnuts are ripe and have taken on [...]
It’s the last day of August and we’re visiting the walled garden at Wrington, a small village off the A38 and about ten minutes from Bristol airport.
It was a bit tricky to find as all the signs you need are visible from the Bristol side and not from the approach from the South.
We went originally [...]