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Hello, I've just confirmed I'll be doing a seed saving workshop at the Sunrise Offgrid festival on 18th-21st Aug. The workshop is on the 18th at 3pm and I'll be on the panel of gardener's question time on the Sunday.

See you all there!

For all those who couldn't make it to Totnes for the book launch here's a quick look at how it started. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtmqI7YtqZQ

Aggghh, what a silly time to move house! I've cast my vote now too, the books are lined up on my shelves ready to go out to the winners!

Looks like the perfect place to plug my book. Do you know Ruth? Perhaps I should drop her a line.

We'll be soft, entries close at 9am tomorrow.

Last chance to enter today!

Hello Nicky, have you tried the vegetable compost from New Horizon? It's much better than the woody one.

It is fairly high in places but not as bad as you might think, we do correct it when we need to but the compost and leaf mould does a lot.

I'm afraid I'm trying to fit things around a very hectic schedule at the moment, I can't give you any more details than July or August. It will be either a day (10-4) with some lunch for £50 or half day without lunch (1-5) for £35, it will be in July or August and will very probably be in Bradlaugh ...

Some good ideas coming through. Only two weeks to go now before the closing date!!

The seeds are very good as a spice but there are plenty of other edible leaves around this time of year to not bother with this plant. It has a strong irritant in the stem which burns the skin when exposed to sunlight. If I were you I would go on another foraging walk and find some alternatives to h...

what gets a rise out of this old git is environmental tokenism Don't get me started on that subject, haver you come across 'degradable' packaging? It breaks down into tiny pieces proving a bigger environmental hazard than non-degradable packaging. On the soil subject, since studying soil science I ...

I really should be getting on with something else but the fertile fenland issue got my mind working. I've been looking at postcodes in the fens and yes they are fertile, however this seems to be on chalk or clay land not acid peaty soils.

:icon_smile: thought saying the old's were stuck in there ways might get a little rise out of you Plus I also take issue on your dismissal of using peat as a soil improver ... peat can't disappear ! The very fact that it get absorbed within a few months surely means that it is a very good soil impro...

Points well made Jerry, gardeners always used to make there own as you simply couldn't buy bags of compost.