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 […]

January cold blue sky

It was one of those lovely winter afternoons – a weak warm sun low in the blue sky, casting a beautiful golden light over everything. I took a walk to the allotment, listening to lovely acoustic guitar music on my headphones and occasionally stopping to drink in the big blue sky and feel the warmth […]