Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Gwenfar A month after I first began the mulching experiment, here is the first update. Experiment 1: after 1 month For bed 1 (standard cardboard and compost mulch), you can see that the cardboard is starting to break down a bit. …
Green manure: Hungarian rye on the left, tares to the right. Will be dug in early Spring. It’s been the mulching time of year, well, more in Autumn, I’m just writing this up late! I decided to try experimenting with …
Updated 5pm: More pictures from the march and rally Proud to support all workers on strike today. I joined the Unison picket line in Rectory Road, Oxford, for a couple of hours. A couple of pictures from striking Oxford workers. …
Brambles – ugh! Like many gardeners, I am regularly at war with brambles. I cannot control the council land that my garden backs onto. Although the council have promised, a couple of times, to remove the brambles, this has yet …
I attended an excellent talk on Agroforestry by Professor Steve Newman of the Agroforestry Research Trust (and BioDiversity Int.) last night, put on by Oxford Permaculture. Whilst I might live in an urban environment and won’t be setting up a forest …
I saw this when on holiday in Germany, as we were cycling into Dernau, in the Ahr valley (near Rhine) with friends. Gives container gardening legs, don’t you think?!
Ok, I realise it has been yonks since I’ve last blogged. I promise I’ll catch up soon and will supply you with pics and stories from our holiday in the Bavarian Forest and visiting friends in Bonn. In the meantime, …
Since undertaking the Permaculture Design Course last year, my confidence in trying to make my own objects for the garden has increased. I’ve also got better at noticing how I can increase the use of the different resources that I …
I must say thank you to the weather, for hearing my plea and making the weekend predominantly sunny, or at least, not very rainy, as it did rain for 1 hour on Sat. My lottie was ever so pleased to …
Dear weather, I don’t want to sound ungrateful. Because I’m not. I’m really pleased that I don’t have to lug heavy watering cans around the lottie for an hour tonight. My maincrop and late potatoes are no doubt swelling with …