Designing Your Garden to work with Mother Nature so Your Plants can thrive without poisons
How will climate change effect you if we do not choose to act to change it? The major effect of climate change that most people will experience will be the disruption of food supply due to the shifts in the weather patterns and heavier storms that result from increasing urban areas that are more than [...]
What does Sustainability Mean to You? Sustainability is the ability to sustain one’s self indefinitely. So sustainability requires the practice of being aware of the consequences of your actions and planning to use resources only to the extent that the system can support that use meeting your desires without harming the ability of other parts [...]
Remember the 5th of November is Bonfire Night is the busiest time of the year for the emergency services as people across England will be having bonfires to celebrate the failure of the Gun Powder Plot to make Parliament work for all. Bonfires can be environmentally damaging because they produce smoke which combined with the [...]
Your slug problem can be solved by looking after this slug eater instead of killing it with your strimmer or stamping on its head like I discovered recently as I walked down to the train station. Slugs & snails are soft bodied animals so are active when they are not likely to dry-out and when [...]
With the wind blowing across the country in strong bursts it is time to remember the 1987 storm that caused chaos with thousands of trees being blown over and disrupting power supply and transport. This time the ground around trees have been wet for a while so is a lot softer than the baked clay [...]
Why do Ants go high for Sex? If you look around you you will notice there are ants with wings that are being expelled from the ant hill on warm dry days at this time of year. These are mostly the small male drones and a few bigger queens who only have wings so they [...]
Do you want a beautiful garden that can contribute to restoring our life-support system? So you need to think about how you can design your garden to provide for the needs of the life cycle of birds, bugs & butterflies – which have been disappearing from our countryside over the past hundred years, due to [...]
I have just come back from visiting the Hampton Court Flower Festival. Edible Garden The weather was dry with sunny periods so the thousands of visitors and stall holders did not get wet. There were a few garden displayed along with the floral displays in the marquees and the stalls selling stuff from garden tools [...]
Gardening Restores Body, Minds & Spirit to Natural Health. Gardening is the process of creating a garden. So what is a garden? The word Garden comes from the Arabic for “Piece of Paradise on Earth” so gardens were places for storing & displaying beauty & celebration of precious things such as water & cool shade [...]
Happy Solstice. The seasons are changing now are you? Today is the summer solstice (the longest day of the year & start of summer) so it is a good time to start taking steps for doing new things to restore our life-support system as you are responsible for the actions you choose to do or [...]
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