No Dig Blog

July 2015 Summer vegetable growing

30 June 2015

July 2015 Summer vegetable growing

Summer catch up, plant care,  some trials results, undercover growing, interplants, weeding, new garden after a Homeacres courseWeather e...

June 2015 harvests and plantings

31 May 2015

June 2015 harvests and plantings

The joy of first harvests, spacings and intersowing,  insect covers, planting through mulches, compost heaps and our show garden. After t...

May 2015

30 April 2015

May 2015

Timing sowing and planting for fickle weather, the joy of perennials, propagation and seed saving, biodynamics, courses and compostingThe...

April 2015

01 April 2015

April 2015

Using fleece, tips on sowing and planting in dry conditions, spring salad harvest, trial update, interplanting, plant raising and pestsTh...

Feb 2015 early sowings

15 February 2015

Feb 2015 early sowings

What to sow now, some into modules and some in trays for pricking out, seeds or sets for onions,  preparing no dig beds for planting, win...

February 2015

28 January 2015

February 2015

Composts for propagating, watering tips, spring salads, updates on another trial and mustard green manurePotting compostsI am always tria...

Midwinter update January 22nd

22 January 2015

Midwinter update January 22nd

Winter's brief appearance and disappearance,  rabbits arrive, raising beds (or not), aerating compost with a metal corkscrew, root veg fo...

Mid January 2015

10 January 2015

Mid January 2015

Keep clearing, mulching, preparing, no sowing yetSeize any chancesAlthough January is currently stormy, the winter weather here in Somers...