Master Gardeners Sarah and Chris were busy sharing seed-sowing skills with young readers at Blofield Library today.  One of a series of workshops on learning new skills hosted by your local library over the coming months.  For information on more such events, check out the Library events page. Catch up on the latest news from [...]

I have a thing about mushrooms.  I find them intriguing.  This photo was taken on a woodland walk a couple of years ago. Earlier this year, I bought a mushroom kit in a garden centre, price reduced by 50% as rather old. Since February, its been in our roof space and I’ve been keeping the [...]

After reading One Straw Revolution, and Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture, I was inspired to start this kind of “no composting”. Old crops, green manures & weeds are roughly chopped up with secateurs, and just dropped on the soil surface as a mulch. I started doing it in 2011, and it’s done more to improve my soil [...]

This is amusing for the kids: square peas. These ones were left in the pod too long, grew too big and got squashed into squares

Hoverfly larvae are voracious predators of aphids. I grow lots of flowers on my veg plot to attract beneficial insects, and have noticed that lilies are a favourite of adult hoverflies. They also like calendula. You don’t need to spend a fortune: this one’s from a pound shop.