advice and reviews

Advice and reviews

On this page you'll find a series of insightful videos and articles giving seasonal advice, and reviews of some of the fantastic products which can help you in your projects.

Beautiful Butterflies Grown at home

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Sarah July 23, 2018

The very ethereal fairy quality and miraculous transformation that butterflies undergo does not escape the eye or heart of many children or adults. The very speed of it is also quite unbelievable when...

Using Calcified Seaweed to improve soil

Sarah May 19, 2018

A lot of people still ask me what on Earth this product is and why on earth would anyone want to use it. It’s simple. It’s a great soil improver. Especially on clay, where not only does it help ac...

Watering The Wildlife

Sarah November 8, 2022

It has been a strangely long dry period across the UK for the last few months, and thanks to being a potential El Nino year plus other factors large parts of the Globe have also been affected. On a do...

Something about Foxes

Sarah July 25, 2018

Foxes. we used to consider them as animals of the Countryside, but as our species has so foolishly reduced the natural habitats and general conditions that provide the foxes with their natural dwellin...

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The Benefits of Raised Beds and Mulches

Sarah January 18, 2023

Seed saving for the future

Sarah January 15, 2016

They are all sorts of crazy shapes and sizes those seeds and spores. Of course some plant reproduction is possible without them – by grafting tissue onto recipient stock plants, or splitting perenni...

Aquascaping

Sarah January 14, 2016

Home Fish tanks aren’t what I remember them to be – a few lonely fish swimming around the fake rock tower, with a hint of algae in the background and maybe a snail for luck....

Soil. Beautiful Soil

Sarah October 22, 2015

Ok. So I don't mind getting a bit grubby in the garden; in fact I quite like it, but what is this soil stuff we tread on/in/generally take for granted?...

Bug houses

Sarah May 19, 2014

Easter holidays – one afternoon we gathered ourselves at Miche’s plot as variously sized and aged mums and kids from 4 families to have a go at making bug houses. Having made and bought va...

Spring into the Garden

Sarah November 25, 2013

‘‘Go and play in the garden’’ A sometimes exasperated suggestion offered by many parents in the past – I know mine did. Looking out of the windows today the weather does little to beckon man...

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