Welcome to my blog, “Digging the Earth”! You might be wondering about the name and what it means. Well, if you haven’t already guessed, it has two meanings that reflect the heart of this blog. First, there’s the literal meaning. As a gardener, “Digging the Earth” represents the hands-on work of planting, nurturing, and growing…
Easter Ground Preparations
We are not particularly big fans of either method of dig or no dig and are pretty open minded to both still, continuing to experiment as we go along, this gives us somewhat of a patchwork plot, some covered with a layer of organic matter for the winter, some parts covered with plastic and membrane and others simply winter dug over. I quite like the variety.
3 Plots! We Must Be Mad!
Well a fair bit has happened since I last wrote. On almost filling up our original plot, it came to the time a month or so ago when the pumpkin plants were ready to go out. On having either planted or allocated the majority of the space we had I was left scratching my head…
Relocating the Strawberry Patch
At the end of September I began the arduous task of weeding the strawberry patch. An absolute nightmare! So much horseradish and dandelion had sprouted up in between the strawberry plants that it just became impossible to dig the weeds out without removing the plants, so I decided to relocate to an area that I…