Sunday 18 March 2012

gardening info-composter


We installed a new composter on Friday,this composter composts cooked and uncooked food underground.The way it works is a large hole is dug and a basket is placed into the hole and the green cone is screwed onto the basket securing it into the ground and the waste is placed into the green cone. The way it works is the waste material rots under ground releasing the goodness into the soil by means of a liquid, The basket allows the worms and beneficial soil micro organisms to come and go,there is no smell as the cone is sealed so flies cannot get in, the cone is double skinned so generating heat which helps decomposition.Come and see it yourself at the National Wildflower Centre,seek me out and I gladly tell you all about this and all methods of composting.The basket is out of sight underground secured to the cone,in the bed where it is sited we are growing our comfrey.

Monday 12 March 2012

gardening info-foster parent



You can never say for certain what's going to happen from one day to the next. Take today for instance, some lovely person donated these lovely plants to us at the Wildflower Centre, not your average wildflowers well not from this country,as you can see it is a fantastic collection of Cacti,this is were the foster parenting comes in. I have grown cacti in the past with a reasonable amount of success but they are not my forte, having said that I'm up for the challenge and I'll let you know how I get on.

Saturday 10 March 2012

gardening info- beds

Some of the raised beds expertly cleaned up by the Friday volunteers,already for planting up now guys,whats stopping you?

gardening info- sq metre yardening


Ran a workshop yesterday about sq. metre gardening or as it is now known sq. yardening,it showed and gave people  ideas what could be grown in a "yarden" with a twist because I also introduced a sq fruit yarden. In this I included fruit bushes grown with stawberries,edible wildflowers, herbs,(a minature forest garden) if you like.Also on display were 2 sq potato gardens simply made out of builders sacks