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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 …

We have two large elder tress and this summer we are going to put the flowers to good foraging use. Next week, the plan is to make elderflower sorbet and …