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Thanks again folks for your advice, I will certainly look into gypsum and leicester council website!

Unfortunately can't get pigs though - not enough room and I think the neighbours would complain!!!

I hope you feel better soon Ranter!

Cheers
Tina

Thanks again folks, I will start a small area in the next few days and see how I get on! Meeting up with another Leicester selfsufficientish person next week to get some tips and advice! I will take some piccys of the back garden (before and after) and see what happens and try and find out how to pu...

Thanks Andy, I never thought of green manure! A quick search on Google and according to the BBC website, it recommends the following green manure crops: Recommended varieties Mustard, Sinapis alba - sow from September to November. Crimson clover, Trifolium hybrid - sow from March to August. Fenugree...

Hi folks, hoping someone with a whole lot more wisdom than me can help me out. I live in a fairly newish house - 13 years old and we still have builders rubble under the top surface of soil in our garden. Under that layer is clay - so bad that if you squeeze it together and leave it in the sun all d...

Thanks for all the welcome message - you do seem a very friendly bunch. Also, thanks to a link on here I am hopefully about to get some free wooden pallets for construction of a chicken run through freecycle - never heard of it before! I will post a message about clay soil and where to get muck from...

Hello Pixieface, I have just joined up with selfsufficientish and have been reading through some of the posts. I have noticed that you are in the Leicester area and are an experienced grower! :dave: I am in Leicester too and haven't a clue where to start! Could I trade some good old fashioned hard w...

I have just decided to dig up our lawn and remove the 50 plus 3 x 2 slabs we laid last year and convert to self sufficientish way of life :cry: I started university as a mature student last October and we now have no money - I was on nearly 20k a year!! Must be mad but hated the 9 to 5 office routin...