Blogs on soil types

heavy soil

I am new on here, the co-owner of a garden in rural Lincolnshire, trying to make the best of heavy clay soil during the dry...

The Concrete And The Clay Beneath My Feet, Begins To Crumble!

The Concrete and The Clay Beneath My Feet, Begins to Crumble........ In The Words Of Randy Edelman or Unit 4 plus 2, if that’s...

Growing plants in an old "barrel"

I have an old wine barrel that I have prepared with the best organic amendments that you can imagine.. Tonight, I found a...

A Recipe for 'Black Gold'

What's that? Read on and find out! N.B. if you are an experienced gardener, you may wish to ignore this blog! INGREDIENTS...

To feed or not to feed

That seems to be a question often asked. My favourite saying is preparation is essential, I am sure I ...

Freaky Soil - What Does This Mean?.......

Hi all, not really sure if this should be a blog or a question....proberly more of a question, but it is nice to brouse a...

Soils.... The Garden Basic...Absolute

Oh, Can I grow that in my zone? What kind of fertilizer should I use? Is it getting enough sun? Perhaps I watered it too...

Soil and Compost...

Started out to talk about compost the other time, and got sidetracked onto musing about the weather...lol. We all obsess...

Compost

A "grows on you" alum has asked what I meant by "over fertilization". Simply this: ignoring soil tilth and microdiversity...

garden chronology...

Today it is snowing. It is coming down like a curtain and covering the gritty streets with white. Since we are a scant 24...

Autumn Soil Preparation

The weekend so far has been far more work than the laziness of making my animation last Sunday. This afternoon we took a...