Lawn Feed Ain’t As Cheap as Bird Seed

Posted on 12 May 201619 May 2016 by John

Not all nitrogen is the same! I bet you didn’t know that! If you think about it, though, it’s obvious. Nitrogen, at room temperature, is a clear, odourless gas. So how do we feed it to pla... Read More

A Spring in My Steppe

Posted on 9 May 201610 November 2016 by John

At last. Spring has arrived, accompanied by a water-butt-emptying lack of rain. Just before the weekend, we were supposed to “get it”. What we got was a storm in a teacup. Well more like a... Read More

Yellow has arrived

Posted on 17 April 20133 November 2015 by John

Celandine is appearing everywhere, despite all my efforts to eradicate it, the various red, blue and mauve primulas I planted around the garden are hiding while yellow ones appear in beds and borders ... Read More

A glorious weekend

Posted on 4 June 20123 November 2015 by John

Thus far, May has been a month which is definitely not the “Month of Maying” and we’ve all been sheltering from the rain (or in the case of some I know, moving out of the flood zone) rather than... Read More