Growing your own vegetables is eco-friendly (smaller carbon footprint, no plastic packaging, organic) and saves you money. Whether you live in a house with a massive garden, just have a small balcony or even no outdoor space whatsoever you can still grow something. Apart from the environmental and financial benefits of…
This week I decided I should finally get round to it and make a bug hotel. I've written about how to have an insect friendly garden so I have to take my own advice! I don't have a job at the moment so the cheapest way I could do this the…
All this news about biodiversity loss around the world is distressing but we can all do a few simple things in the garden to help. Insects and bugs have long been seen as pests but we have to change our attitude towards them because they play a major part in the…
This week is International Compost Awareness Week. Yes, that's really a thing! So it seems to be a great week to talk all about compost. You might have heard that composting is a good thing to do. But why? And where do you begin with composting at home? For everything you…