I thought I’d share my method of leek planting as I do find it fascinating. It is the classic technique that many of the old timers advocate but more modern gardeners seem to shun. I personally think it works a treat and is particularly good for dry conditions. When I was a kid my dad [...]
Make use of Stones
Nothing goes to waste in an organic garden. In my garden the soil, which is thin over rock, is full of stones and as I work our patch of land I take out the stones from soil where I am preparing seeds beds for onions, brassicas and lettuces or to sow crops that don’t like [...]
Warming Walls
Stone walls can be used as protection for overwintering and early fowering plants and trees. During the day the stones absorb the heat from the sun and at night the heat radiates back out to keep the less frost hardy plants warm in winter and early spring. Walls can be used as a backdrop for plants that [...]
Winter Lettuces
Winter Lettuces are varieties of lettuces that can be sown late in the season, will tolerate cold and low light levels and still provide leaf pickings for the salad bowl right through winter and into spring. Some of my favourite lettuces are these hardy types because they have robust flavours, crisp leaves and good textures. [...]
Cutting Back Mint
By late summer mint is usually looking decidedly unappetising, long straggly flower stems and burnt out leaves. But mint, given a good haircut, will come back with flush of tasty fresh leaves. It is a very simple job that does not need any finesse. Use a pair of secateurs or even shears and cut the [...]
Choosing a raised bed system
There are many ways of growing vegetables; in fields, beds, trenches, flooded areas, sunken beds, rows, vertically, square foot beds, grow bags boxes and pots, even in nutrient rich water. In our area people generally rotivate their land each spring and plant the vegetable gardens out in rows like a mini version of field cultivation. [...]
Broadcast Sowing
Some crops are best broadcast sown, that is to say sown over a wide area rather than thinly in rows Crops that work particularly well are fast growing leafy crops that will be cut regularly for their young leaves such as; salad mixes, lettuces, rocket, lambs lettuce (mache), spinach, leafy oriental brassica and herbs such [...]
Mulching
Mulching is a simple technique of covering bare soil to; protect it from erosion and compression and to suppress weeds and retain moisture. Soil can be mulched with hard materials such as plastics or stone but better still are materials that are degradable because they also add nutrients, humus and improve the condition of the [...]
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