A little plug…
A year ago I joined a local choir – it takes the mind off gardening once a week and keeps the lungs well oiled. So this is an unabashed plug for a carol concert our choir are performing next week at St. Wilfred’s church, Witton Street, Northwich. It starts at 7.30 on the 5th December. […]
Eggs galore, but no kitchen.
Our eight hens are laying beautiful brown eggs at last, though some seem to prefer to make their own nests on the compost heaps or under the conifer hedge rather than use their neat wooden nest boxes. I suspect the main reason is the onging henhouse power struggle in which the large, dominant hens evict […]
Fallen leaves are the finest treasure a gardener can have, the raw material for the black gold that is leaf mould. Some magical alchemy of dead leaves, fungi and time produces the sweetest, cleanest, softest compost possible. And you can’t buy it – you make your own or go without. On Wednesday we filled old […]