by Stephanie Hafferty | Dec 15, 2017 | Blog, Homesteading, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Organic, Permaculture, Preparing The Soil, Winter
In the bleak mid-winter, frost made the earth stand hard as iron, water like a stone. No problem for no dig gardeners – we decided to make another bed at Homeacres! (We didn’t get the snow mentioned in Christina Rossetti’s poem here in Somerset, just...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Gardening, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Dig Organic Home and Garden, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Preparing The Soil
We are often asked to start no dig gardens and so the admin team of our Facebook group and I have come up with the Top Ten Most Frequently Asked Questions. If we haven’t covered your questions, please ask them in the comments here (or on the Facebook group if...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Nov 22, 2017 | Allotment, Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, Organic, Permaculture
My allotment has been quite neglected recently. All of my travels (Yorkshire for a wedding, then Thailand and Laos, with a work trip to Ireland just 2 days after returning), my work and autumnal weather suddenly arriving after a mild sunny spell – quite a shock...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Oct 16, 2017 | Allotment, Autumn, Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, No Dig Gardening, No Dig Home, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Winter
This is the eighth in my series of blog posts, explaining how to grow vegetables and herbs which can be sown now to see you through the winter and spring – no hungry gap in 2018! I have added the category No Hungry Gap, so you can find all of the blogs easily using...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Oct 16, 2017 | Blog, Homesteading, No Dig Gardening, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel
This is the seventh in my series of blog posts, explaining how to grow vegetables and herbs which can be sown now to see you through the winter and spring – no hungry gap in 2018! I have added the category No Hungry Gap, so you can find all of the blogs easily using...
by Stephanie Hafferty | Oct 8, 2017 | Blog, Gardening, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, Mulching, No Dig Gardening, No Hungry Gap, Organic, Permaculture, Polytunnel, Preparing The Soil, Winter
This is the sixth in my series of blog posts, explaining how to grow vegetables and herbs which can be sown now to see you through the winter and spring – no hungry gap in 2018! I have added the category No Hungry Gap, so you can find all of the blogs easily using the...