Every few weeks the plants in your organic garden will benefit from a liquid feed. This gives them a little boost, especially green leafy vegetables.
It’s not that difficult to make your own organic fertilizer – you just need to make sure that whatever you’re using has not been exposed to chemicals. This is pretty easy [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, chickens on March 13th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is a small patch of plain chives that are flowering in my organic garden at the moment. Despite the heat they are flourishing. As you can see, the flowers of the plain chives are pink and in a ball, unlike the garlic chives in the post below, which are white and star-like.
They are a [...]
Filed under: Herbs, Uncategorized on March 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
Had to quickly post this pic of a small planting of my garlic chives. They’re flowering at the moment and are quite beautiful. It’s worth growing them just for the flowers. They look great planted among roses.
You can use the leaves in your cooking the same way you would normal chives – they just have [...]
Filed under: Herbs, Uncategorized on March 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
I took cuttings from my rosemary bush and sage plant a little over a week ago. They are looking really healthy. If you want to get more plants for free, taking cuttings is a great way to get a lot more plants – fairly quickly.
Take your cuttings in the cool of the morning (if it’s [...]
Filed under: Herbs, Uncategorized on March 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
Today hubby and I went and picked up our first poly-tunnel – it’s very exciting! Well it’s five actually, but we’ll only be using one to start with. We’ve only got the frames so far, because we bought them second hand – picked up a real bargain.
It was really hot to be collecting them today, [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on March 6th, 2008 | No Comments »