What can I do with my green tomatoes?
The autumn is bringing cooler temperatures and so I'm thinking about what I should do with all the green tomatoes still hanging on the...
- Sep 17, 2021
- 7 min
Does compostable plastic really compost?
Returning to the Big Compost Experiment As you may have noticed, I’m getting increasingly nutty about compost (currently researching...
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- Jul 12, 2021
- 5 min
News from the Compost Kitchen
Back in February I shared my composting-beginner’s pride at having managed to put together this three-bay compost kitchen, made out of...
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- Jun 18, 2021
- 9 min
Meadow Making
Meadow June 2021 – Ox-eye daisies, yellow rattle, buttercups Here’s me, yesterday, proudly posing with my patch of meadowing success – a...
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- Jun 2, 2021
- 5 min
What on earth is ‘earthing up’?
As I greeted my emerging potato plants with glee a month or so ago, I wondered about the whole earthing up business. What’s it all for?...
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- Apr 26, 2021
- 3 min
Talking to Gail about her springtime woodland pathway
Early on a misty morning last week, I commandeered our brilliant gardener Gail and asked her all about one of her recent planting...
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- Apr 19, 2021
- 3 min
Wildflowers at Langdon
Just as I get excited by the fungi that turn up cheekily and uninvited during autumn (“Invitation? Whoever said we needed an invitation?”...
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- Apr 5, 2021
- 8 min
The Babe and the Old Timer – Tales of Two Ash Trees
Tree Diaries ~ Apr 2021 Julie’s ash – About 5 yrs old The Old Ash – About 120 years old? The arrival of a new tree a few weeks ago has...
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- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
Alders by the Pond 2
Tree Diaries ~March 2021 In this post a month ago I introduced you to our two alder trees, which I’ve nicknamed Al and Glute. Over the...
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- Feb 26, 2021
- 6 min
Springtime here we come!
Oh yes – this is VERY welcome. Warmer and finally, drier. Our boggy, saturated ground is at last getting a breather – and so are we. It’s...
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- Feb 19, 2021
- 5 min
Alders by the Pond 1
Tree Diaries ~ Feb 2021 So this is the first in a new series of posts called ‘Tree Diaries’, where I’ll be focussing in on just one tree,...
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- Feb 11, 2021
- 2 min
Tracks in the snow
We woke to a fresh and thick layer of snow coating the ground and lacing the trees. Tracks – humans, and a mystery animal. (To the right...
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- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
Soggy Fragments
My post this week is going to reflect my lockdown winter days, where fragments of connection and small jobs in the garden have to be...
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- Jan 24, 2021
- 4 min
Willows and Wilding
A couple of months ago I noticed that some of the huge ‘weeds’ growing in the area we’ve nicknamed the Jungle weren’t dying back like the...
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- Jan 20, 2021
- 2 min
Naming trees – Making signs
Christmas, the dark and wet weather, adjusting to home schooling again…they’ve all knocked my blog writing mojo over the last month....
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- Dec 30, 2020
- 6 min
Fungi Finale
For my final post of 2020 I’m returning to my new found love of fungi with a round up of some more amazing species that I’ve found in the...
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- Dec 16, 2020
- 5 min
Getting along with rabbits and moles
We have lots of these burrowing furry fellows here at Langdon, and in the past week the two of them have had me thinking and keeping me...
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- Dec 7, 2020
- 4 min
The Big Compost Experiment
When a cup manufacturer says their cup is ‘compostable’, what does this actually mean? Can it be composted at home? Does the council...
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- Dec 2, 2020
- 4 min
Tree planting at Langdon
A copper beech, planted Nov 2018. Unlike some of the young trees they are thick with leaves already, and keep them almost all year round....
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- Nov 24, 2020
- 4 min
Composting success and ‘No Dig’ beds
My very own home-made compost – PROUD! Last Friday I had such a brilliant afternoon. On a whim I decided it was time to empty out the...
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