Bees & Insects
Bees and bumblebees are incredibly important for pollination, not just so that we can eat apples and other fruit, but also for pollinating flowering plants so that they can reprodu... Category: project
Help the Mason Bee
Simple, short and free project to help this lovely, non-agressive native bee. Category: project
Leave Flowering Ivy
Don't cut back flowering ivy in Autumn, but leave it for the bees Category: project
Sow Nasturtiums
Nasturtium are bright yellow, orange and red flowers which are perfect for bees and bumblebees. And they look good too in your garden! Category: project
Provide year-round nectar
Provide your bees, bumblebees and insects with year-round nectar by choosing a selection of flowering plants. Category: project
Ditch the chemicals
Back to hand weeding, or simply leaving the weeds. Back to non-chemical pest control, or just accept that perfect vegetables don't exist in the wild! Category: project
Hank the Tank
What am I to do with ‘Hank the Tank’?!
For starters, she really thinks she is a tank and won’t move out of the way even for an approaching car - mine! This makes getting to work a... Category: blog
Cedric the Pheasant
What does one write about when the stars of the show have not been doing anything worth writing about? You find another star, that’s what! Category: blog
East-henders
I could start writing the storyline for a soap opera with our hens, the neighbour’s hens and Cedric in the lead roles! ‘East-henders’, maybe? Category: blog