Given that we live in the UK, I never thought I’d be thankful to see some rain. It’s the first decent rainfall we’ve had in six weeks (after the hottest and driest May in over a century) and our garden, orchard, field, grass and veg patch really needed a good soak.
Continue reading First decent rainfall in six weeksWe purchased a few packs of nematodes a couple of weeks ago from Nematodes Direct to help us organically and naturally remove certain pests from our raised beds.
Continue reading Adding nematodes to our raised bedsThe blazing hot month of May has prompted the grass in our field to bolt and grow at a rate we’ve not experienced before. Three weeks ago I strimmed our ‘wild’ garden field and would have expected to do it again before the autumn. That’s not been the case. I’ve had to do it again today, along with other portions of our field, and it’s led me to developing hastenburaphobia.
Continue reading Developing hastenburaphobiaOur veg patch journey has been an eventful one, but it’s done and now it’s about the real business at hand: planting, growing and harvesting our veg.
Continue reading Our first ever veg patch – part six – planting, growing and harvestingIn what has been the hottest and driest May in over a century in the UK, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we’ve had a bumper solar month, smashing our all-time solar PV production record in the process.
Continue reading Smashed our all-time solar PV production record
