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Quality compost is a whole universe of diverse organisms, in just a teaspoon of compost the numbers of microorganisms is mind boggling. These microorganisms are incredibly beneficial to plants, working in ways we are only just beginning to understand. Plants get their nutrients from the soil and the nutrients in the soil are made plant … Continue reading Why is compost important?

Belper Town Council is holding a Garden and Plants Summer Sunday Market on 14th May. Market Place, Belper between 10 am and 3 pm. We will be there with a stall selling Perennial Plants, Compost & Biochar. Plants available to buy- Perennial Veg Red Ruffled Kale  Land Cress Babington's leek £10 A fabulous, hardy perennial leek, … Continue reading Belper Garden & Plants Market Sunday 14th May 2023

We're a community of citizen gardeners, not a community garden. Everyone that visited our Spring plant sale today left with something new: in their brains, for their gardens, and some of them for their mouths. Plants, compost, food. My favourite was our youngest visitor munching on Taunton Deane kale leaves. I'm excited for many more … Continue reading Our community of gardeners

Maybe I can find space to grow Brussels Sprouts next year. Some of those nice looking red ones. Chillies will be sown in January. And the first of the leeks. Seed catalogues have started to drop through the letterbox. Where are the gaps? As the temperatures rebound almost 20 degrees warmer than last week, I … Continue reading Thoughts of Spring… already

There's no two ways about it, it's autumn. Are you too stubbornly avoiding the central heating? Through thriftiness and denial about the turn of the season. That's me. While also taking long gazes towards the kindling stacks, formed mostly of last winter's fruit tree prunings. Perhaps we'll have our first fire of the autumn tonight, … Continue reading Falling into autumn abundance