You’ll find my best gardening tips and techniques here plus a bit of humour. Some is practical, some is quirky, some of it is both. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
It’s that time of year again. The clocks changed a while ago and now the days are short and the nights are longer and more drawn out than the last film in the Hobbit trilogy. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be getting jobs done in the garden. In fact, autumn and early winter are […]
If you’re like me you love having a well looked after, green patch of grass to call your own. There’s nothing like that beautiful lush, verdant, soft lawn under your bare feet on a summer’s evening. But there’s one thing I’m not so keen on. Cutting it. But imagine if you could have a beautiful […]
When I started writing my next book ‘The Self Provisioning Handbook’, I never planned to write about meat. I was going to call the book ‘Everything but the chicken’ because I think having your own livestock or poultry is unrealistic. Self provisioning is meant to be realistic and attainable – not pie-in-the-sky hippy dippy ‘make […]
What are the jobs that self provision gardeners are doing during autumn. Autumn can be a busy time for any gardener but for self provision gardening, it’s particularly important. Autumn is when you will harvest many of your crops – especially winter storage crops. But that doesn’t have to end with empty beds, and a […]
By now, you already know how gardening can be used to teach life lessons. You may have even read about it in my ’How to Reconnect with the Land (And Ensure Your Kids’ Survival)’ post last year. Gardening is a worthwhile activity, and it is something all Dads can do with their kids. With that in […]
