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The hot weather at the start of the summer has definitely had a big effect on many of our crops. Without going into the usual veggies, spuds onions beans, beans, beans …. we have had maybe our best ever returns from a number of different sources. Let’s start with the less well known. The Sichuan Peppercorn tree has yielded six spice jars worth of dried peppercorns, three times more than the… Read More
‘Twas a strange day in the Nant-y-Bedd garden today. We were working together! It was, albeit a bit later than usual due to the inclement weather, the time to construct this year’s bean tunnel. A lot of ‘harvesting’ of hazel rods had been going on recently and in order to get the cars out of the yard, something had to be done. The Runner Bean tunnel is widely admired by our visitors,… Read More
Practical Organic Compost Making and its use Wednesday 30th May 2018 10am – 3.30pm with Sue Mabberley at Nant-y-bedd, Fforest Coal Pit, Abergavenny, NP7 7LY Composting is a key element of organic growing. Transforming waste products from kitchen and garden into microbially active compost to enrich the soil is an immensely satisfying process. We will begin the day with an indoor session on the theory behind the process of successful compost making… Read More
We had some lovely garden visitors today who were very interested in my method of stringing up the crop of onions to store them for use over the winter – so here’s how… I’ve been using this method since coming across it in John Seymour’s book (the organic gardening guru of the 1970’s) entitled the Self-sufficient Gardener, dated 1978 – how time flies when you’re enjoying your garden. The finished strings look… Read More
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