Kitchen Garden

A drop of the good stuff

Growing crops in a veg plot or in pots is quite intensive and demanding on soil and plants alike. We drive them hard and expect a lot from our little patches. Of course, gardeners have known for centuries that in order to keep those harvests coming year after year we have to give something back in return in the form of quality sustenance.

After years of using what some would say is a heavy-handed approach - ladling on high levels of man-made feeds -the trend now is to adopt practices which are much more in tune with nature, using products made from natural materials, whether bought in or made at home, and to combine

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