Budgeting manure

I spent yesterday creating a bank in which to plant a hedge (whitethorn) to fill a gap that used to be a gateway and is no longer used. I was using a large pile of cow dung and straw that a neighbour kindly delivered to us last year when he was cleaning out a cowshed…

Technical Ooops!!

Hi All, sorry for disappearing but I had problems beyond my control. It seems that the server my blog was hosted on went belly up – they just disappeared overnight last week! I have no idea what happened but my freind who put up this site for me on a server he was using lost…

Monstrous Monsanto

I only found out this evening that Monsanto has bought up a huge seed company, Seminis, Inc., a leading Vegetable and Fruit Seed Company, making Monsanto the owners of the seed suppliers for 40% of American vegetable seed customers and 20% of the global customer base. That’s pretty scary news and I only found out…