Exploring ways to improve our local environment and live healthily
If, like us, you have a patch of lawn or garden that doesn’t get a lot of sunlight, is often damp and doesn’t enable much to grow on it – even grass – have a think about creating a bog garden. Our patch is in a corner of a lawn in our almost-North-facing front garden. …
Why on Earth did we decide to plant a little native-hedgerow in our smallish garden, with its one flower bed and lawn…? What possessed us to order a batch of 50 tiny shoots of hawthorn, blackthorn, crab apple, bird cherry, field maple and hazel to plant out in said border…? Who the heck wants their …
Yes folks, when the health powers-that-be tell you that you need to eat at least five, preferably ten portions of fruit and veg a day, they mean you should work your way through up to 800g of the stuff in said 24-hours — 10 portions of around 80g each. Here’s what is reported on the …