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Green Living

  • Soil Management

    Manure is the essential ingredient in the fertility of your vegetable garden. It must be well rotted and never fresh as it will burn your plants. I use chicken and cow manure as part of my soil management. Compost is also an essential part of your vegetable crop. Have a little bucket with a lid […]

  • Growing Tomatoes and A Rustic Soup Recipe

    This year was a bumper crop of tomatoes for me! Both smaller yellow pear and large red heirlooms. I find it’s so much easier to grow cherry tomatoes and the smaller varieties than the larger fruit, but this year was my year for both! There are so many varieties experimenting is fun! Particularly if you […]

  • Autumn In The Kitchen Garden

    It’s a fabulous time in the garden! With summer crops ripe and finishing up, that means many delicious vegetables for your table. The cooler days are a relief and make gardening much easier, particularly now having to pull up old crops and dig new life into your soil. As summer comes to an end, we begin […]

  • Seeds

    Seeds are a crucial part of plants renewing life, and life on earth. Each seed contains the DNA of the parent plant to enable the seed replicate the parent plant. Seeds can travel amazing distances, being transported around the world via water, bird life, wind, and the fur of animals. Then, when dropped onto the […]

  • Rainwater Harvesting

    Having grown up on farms, it’s always seemed completely natural to me to use rainwater to drink, and throughout the house. When I moved to the city for university, I couldn’t believe that no-one bothered to catch the rainwater that was falling – most people just relied on the mains water supply for everything, even […]