Due to a slight over ordering we have some seed potatoes over and so we have placed them at the entrance to most of the sites – please help yourself. Any remaining will be collected in a week or so and composted.
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British scientists have come up with innovative ways to pre-emt diseases and pests that devastate 40% of crops worldwide. At the heart of it is JASMIN, a supercomputer at RAL (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) run by STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council). JASMIN analyses data and transmits it through the satellite directly to plant doctors who
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Healthy, good quality soil is the root of all garden and allotment goodness, so get yours shipshape now. ADDING ORGANIC MATTER. Organic matter is a blanket term for a number of natural soil improvers or fertilisers of varying nutrient levels. Soil on its own can lack sufficient texture and nutrient content, so to grow
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This year I had a repeat of a problem with my strawberries – woodlice. I’d go to pick them, and find many with a little spherical hole near the top, each hole containing one or more tiny woodlice. It was as if I were running a woodlouse kindergarten! It must have affected about a third
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In many ways, dandelions are the perfect plant: bright yellow flowers for much of the year, if you deadhead regularly, popular with pollinators and seed-eating birds so good for wildlife, very attractive seedheads that are fun for children to play with, striking evergreen foliage you can even eat them. And yet … it’s hard to
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