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I feel a bit kerfused :D

Thank you. Some good tips there :)

That sounds interesting. I haven't hear of that one yet. Something for me to google tomorrow . Thanks.

Thanks for that. yes! I have Charles Downing's book and my daughter has been on his courses. She has taken my patch on as a practice project and I am truly grateful for her help. She's busy and has a very small farm that they are redeveloping (No livestock ) on the Pennine moors and two...

I'm not sure where agriculture and allotment food growing merge. Maybe I am thinking more of specialist growers on small holdings here. I have a large allotment.and after a bad fall last year I have had to radically rethink how to stop my plot getting too overgrown and unmanageable without...

Well I suppose that's really what we do when we "Earth up". One book I read suggested this but covering with layers of newspaper. Unfortunately I don't read news papwers and some of the inks are supposed to be not to healthy. Also the writer admitted the tubers were smaller than those grown...

Thanks. Worth a try. It will be interesting experimenting. That sound like a DIY bulb planter .

Well spotted. Lol Though judging from the sideways glances my cardboard covered allotment plot gets I don't think digging will be relegated to history. I still haven't worked out how to plant my spuds without a trench first! It's hard shoving a seed spud through cardboard even with a dibber. For...

OH! I forgot to say I live on the outskirts of Manchester, now in a sort of Green Beltish area. Land is disappearing fast under new housing developments so not really a rural setting.

Hi there I am a retired Biology and Rural Sciences Teacher in my 70's. I come from an agricultural family. Dad ran a market garden, granddad had Flower nurseries and Aunty Daisy a lovely traditional mixed farm. My best job ever was the Rural Science course I ran in a local Comprehensive...