Everything about used coffee grounds for compost and fertilizer
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Morning Hunger
Morning dew drops flick off an old rosemary bush, bees race for pollen
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Coffee Posters – London Ground to Ground
Posters for coffee grounds collecting – London Ground to Ground
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Spider on Nettle
Stinging Nettle is a glorious plant, and it took me a couple of years to create an environment that would make it thrive.
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How to Build a Tire Pond for Your Garden – Step-by-Step Guide
Build a pond for frogs or fish or fun If you want to get the most from your garden, then find a place for a pond or two. Not only can you use a pond to attract frogs and beneficial insects; water is a very effective place to grow food, and according to those involved…
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Garden Planning
This is as detailed a tactical plan required to get ready for a Summer and Autumn harvest. Corn and sunflowers go here, bush beans and tomatoes go there. And so on, and so forth…
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Water Rat
Always keep an eye out for those little rodents that find a home in the IBC. Once they get into your life they never leave!!
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Sunflower Protein Supplement
Will extra protein make this sunflower bigger, faster, stronger? Hey worst case – the container will keep out the snails and slugs, and those pesky little birds.
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Biomass from Aquaculture
A half a kilo (1 pound) excess of Azola and Duck Weed is farmed each week from just one of my 200 litre truck tire ponds. It makes a great cost free supplement for the quail, and they seem to love it. Not sure if it is for the taste alone or for the fact that both…
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First Broad Beans of Spring
See them! Broad bean pods replacing white with black stained flowers, surrounded by lavender and nasturtium, in the morning shadow of a lemon tree.
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Message from Deborah – London Ground to Ground
Hi! I’m Deborah Rothenberg and I live in Stroud Green in North London. I have travelled the world, climbed mountains and lived in 3 different countries, but always return to the melting pot that is London. As a society we are driven by our addictions, mine, as an outdoor swimmer, runner, cyclist and Yogi, is…
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Ant Colony on the Move!
Such an amazing Spring day in Melbourne today. One activity on the list of things to do was to restock the compost heap – with bags of previously collected dried leaves. Seems that some ants setup a home over Autumn. Sorry ants! Hope the compost stack is just as good…
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Large Earthworm Returns!
A large earthworm found under dry leaves.