Organic vegetables in a trench.

Trench Composting: The Lazy Gardener’s Secret to Rich, Nutrient-Packed Soil!

If you’re looking for one of the simplest ways to compost, you’ve stumbled across the right method here! Trench composting may involve a bit of digging, but it requires little thought about anything else.  Like all composting, it’s a great way to improve soil structure and fertility, and I find it particularly useful when the […]

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A scientist peers at healthy green and red tomatoes hanging down from a plant.

Are Your Plants Suffering from Climate Change? Scientists Have a Solution

2nd May 2023 Gardeners and farmers alike are suffering from the effects of climate change.  As heat waves sweep across the world, water levels are dropping – and tomato yields are particularly affected.  However, a new study may have the answer – at least for tomatoes.  Morrocan researchers compared the use of conventional chemical fertilizers

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Chickens on the manure heap.

Use Manure, But Make Sure You Compost It First, Say Scientists. Here’s Why…

20th April 2023 Boy, do we produce a lot of manure.  In the EU alone we produce 1400 million tonnes of manure (and that’s just the animals!) This causes problems – think methane being released into the atmosphere, for example. But it also has the potential for some serious benefits for our soil and ecosystems

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