Slugs – a cunning plan….

Last spring, slugs got the better of me and entire rows of seedlings vanished, repeatedly. I’m 99% organic, so I don’t want to go for the nuclear slug pellet option. (I did it once a few years back in a fit of frustration and it’s really not for me.) I didn’t know last year that […]

No-dig green manures

It was wonderful to get outside today in the warm sunshine. The snow has melted away, the sky is blue with a few clouds, and the temperature here in London is a balmy 16C, made slightly cooler by the cool wind. I walked to the allotment listening to the end of Mark Cocker’s book about […]