Working Sheepdog Puppies For Sale
These are fantastic dogs from working parents with a great lineage. Their mother is our very own working dog Tegwen and their father is Kinloch Mazi
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2024
Our Transgender Chicken
Our Transgender Chicken We have kept hens for eggs for at least ten years and up until recently they did what hens do best – they laid eggs, ate layer pellets, scratched for insects and worms, entertained us, grew old and eventually died, or occasionally got taken by a fox. All that changed last week
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News Letter June 2024
Like many growers across the UK we had a difficult year last year due to a short but very hot and dry start to the season followed by literally months of rain. We’re glad to say that now the weather is finally improving we can at long last see a light at the end of the very wet tunnel.
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Hotbeds
Hotbeds What are hotbeds? The clue is definitely in the name when it comes to hotbeds. A hotbed is simply a surface or substrate that is warmer than its surroundings, creating a controllable or passive microclimate. Why use hotbeds? Hotbeds create an environment that will allow you to sow delicate plants such as tomatoes, cucumbers
Companion Planting For Pollination
Companion Planting For Pollination Maximising Pollination Here’s a tip to help encourage pollinators to your garden, especially to flower-bearing crops like beans, tomatoes and cucumbers etc. In this example we show runner beans which are easy to grow and will do so like crazy once the get going. However, they can take forever to get
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Mulching With Compost
Apart from the many environmental benefits of no-dig gardening, the most obvious benefit of a no-dig system is of course there is “no digging” Woo Hoo! For ever, people have been taught that in order to produce good crops they have to spend hours breaking their backs digging the soil, turning it over and pulling
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