Reading through a magazine this week, I came across an article with a picture of chicken made from chicken wire. It looked brilliant and thought our lovely our vege patch would look with a flock of these chickens standing by. I figured they couldn’t be too hard to make, well too hard to get a […]
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Mini No-Dig Gardens in Pots – Potatoes
I think I mentioned a few posts back that we layered up some large pots with the idea of planting some potatoes. We’ve never tried growing potatoes before so this was a huge experiment. We got a couple of seed potatoes from Morrisons and also one from a free coupon inside a gardening magazine. Back […]
Vege progress: getting ready to harvest our no-dig gardens
We are getting excited, our vege’s are coming along beautifully, all we need is lots more sunshine!!! Everything looks green and lush and is growing so well. We haven’t added any additional plant food as we wanted to see how well everything will do on it’s own with just the nutrients from the no-dig garden […]
Our no-dig garden is working!
This weekend while tidying up in the garden we found a rogue potato so decided to chuck it in the last remaining bit of space in our no-dig vege patch. And low and behold to our delight we discovered all of our layers had turned into a lush moist worm filled soil. No trace at […]
No-dig gardens – all planted!!
We had a couple of spare hours this afternoon so we took the opportunity to put all the seedlings into the garden. I have my fingers crossed that we are doing the right thing! Mike has rabbit-proofed most of the fence around the gardens but the ground is so hard and rocky we’re hoping that […]
Easter Gardening – Fencing, sowing seeds and the Apple Tree
Despite the changeable weather we did loads in the garden over the two week Easter school holidays. We had aimed to finish fencing off the no-dig garden area so that we could start putting in the hardier plants and feel safe that the rabbits couldn’t touch them. We also wanted to plant an apple tree, […]
How we fought the battle with the rats in the no-dig garden…
and won??!! They seem to have left the garden along last night so fingers crossed they have moved out. It was obvious that they liked the comfort of the warm straw layers of the gardens and had made a tunnel into each of them. We decided to try a water treatment to see if making […]
Michael building the new fence for the No-Dig garden
The next stage of the no-dig garden is to fence it off from the wild rabbits who will simply devastate anything we hope to plant and grow in them. Passing by a local pub the other day we noticed a pile of old fencing stacked in their carpark. After a polite chat with the owner, […]
Stage 2 of our no-dig garden
Well, the rain has held off so we outside in the cold wind ready to put on the top three layers of the no-dig garden. >> Click here to read about Stage 1 of our no-dig garden and here to read about what a no-dig garden is. So today we started by putting down a […]
Oh dear, rats in our no-dig garden!!
We took the covers off the no-dig garden to have a look and one of them had been completely turned over by a family of rats!! Aaaahhhhhhh!! What to do?! Photo: the garden on the right WAS the same as the garden on the left until the rats got involved!! Mike did a bit of […]