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Category Archives: gardening
Saving your own seed
I have been pondering this recently, as I just got an allotment (more on this later). How did we cope before seed companies?
40 years ago most people would be saving the seeds of their favourite crops to reap the successes … Continue reading
Plan Bee
Bees pollinate a third of the food we eat. They are essential for farming and if we wanted to do the pollinating work ourselves – it would take a workforce of 30 million. And that’s just for food – bees … Continue reading
Give me your favourite quotes
I have been using a great little WordPress plug-in called ‘Quotes Collection‘ on this blog – it’s great for grabbing those quotes you see popping up over the web and adding them to your blog. It is my favourite aspect … Continue reading
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Mind the gap
I am not the only one fretting about over-specialisation it seems. I was pointed to Sharon Astyk’s ‘Casaubon’s Book’ blog by this Eating the Seasons post, which mentioned the book Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front.
The post … Continue reading
Sow the seeds and scatter…
Last year I grew some carrots from seed – and chucked some spuds in the ground – the carrots worked but the spuds got blight – still got some nice little earlies though. We also grew some tomato plants in … Continue reading
