soil

Soil and the role of dipping ponds in the garden

World Soil day, how dipping ponds can harvest water, prevent flooding and influence the microclimate, and one way that plants communicate with fungi

Dec 4, 2024 •

Polyculture & seed endophytes

Do you rotate your crops or do you go in for as bit of vegetable freestyling and create interesting and productive polyculture beds? Plus the importance…

Jul 3, 2024 •

Where are all the butterflies?

Are you worried by the lack of insects this year? We're enjoying lovely sunny weather but there's hardly a butterfly on the wing in our fields. Plus…

Jun 27, 2024 •

Rain, more rain, famine and Hansel and Gretel plus perennial veg

Well, that was a wet spell ….. my garden accumulated another 43 mm since the New Year and I expect everybody else is the same and is faced with a…

Jan 10, 2024 •

More flooding and some soil news ..... and its not that good

Another 51mm rain fell on my Somerset garden over Sunday and Monday. To give you some idea of just how much, overnight more than 7,000 litres of water…

Dec 6, 2023 •

Kim Stoddart gets up and close and personal with this important enabler of veg patch life and explains how to keep it fertile and simply fantastic all…

Jun 3, 2020 •

It's going to rain this week!

This blog was published on 4 June 2019 and a similar pattern has emerged in 2020, except this time the months of March, April and May have been hot and…

Jun 3, 2020 •

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