It’s going to be a bumper year for pumpkins
May was not a great month for our vegetable garden, but things are gradually getting back on track, and we’re expecting to harvest our first tomatoes in the next 7-10…
May was not a great month for our vegetable garden, but things are gradually getting back on track, and we’re expecting to harvest our first tomatoes in the next 7-10…
Regular followers will know that we use Ecoworm’s assortment of organic vermicompost liquid fertilisers across our smallholding giving our vegetables, flowers, trees and shrubs the nutrition they need. We’ve filmed…
Last year, a number of our plants and flowers were badly affected by slugs. This year with many new plants we’re not taking any chances, and we’re using Nemaslug to…
I’ve wanted to home-brew beer for years, and things have finally lined up for me to do so. To build up my confidence, I did a small nettle beer home…
Over the course of June we received a number of questions and follow ups from readers asking about the performance of our Vortex home sewage treatment plant after we had…
Take a tour around our Victorian walled back garden. We show you over 40 annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees that we have growing, and let you know which ones are…
In the weeks ahead we are going to replace all our plastic hose attachments to brass fittings from Darlac. We are waiting for a few more parts to arrive and…
We have been using a Brita Maxtra+ water jug for a few years to predominantly remove the taste of chlorine from our tap water, which can at times get quite…
From the time we moved in, we had two cheap taps on the basins in the guest bathrooms. Last week, one of the taps finally broke so we purchased some…