I am really glad I brought this subject up now it will be good to compare results with those of you who are going for the Rock Dust treatment too. I have two half plots adjacent to each other so I plan to treat just one of them this Autumn together with the green manures I have talked my allotment n...

So why is Government so hell bent on concreting a lot more of our agricultural land with their new Eco Towns? Food and its production is going to be a major World issue very soon, surely the powers that be are shooting themselves in the foot It is understandable that many of us ordinary thinking fol...

I have ordered a large new one in anticipation OH I am about to commence reading a book entitled "We want some real food" by Graham Harvey which allegedly (as I haven't read it yet) gives an insight into mineral deficiency in soil, how it can affect us and more importantly how we can addre...

Garden Organics do have it in stock at £8.60 per 20 kilo bag My lady informs me that coverage at maximum application is 5 kilos per 4 square metres...each application will last five years She tells me that the most minerals contained in the usual products are five or six whilst the Rock Dust contain...

Dear OH If you get down Sherringham way do pop into the Priory Maze its literally just outside of Sherringham on the Cromer Road...I promise you that you won't be disappointed... they do nice meals too or maybe just stop off on the way round for a coffee and sticky bun...unless your watching your fi...

Thanks for your response OH... I gathered from the 'silence' that probably not many folk have tried this method yet. I hope to be meeting up with the lady who I was speaking to yesterday again tomorrow and I will get more information then. She certainly was extremely positive about it...Its perhaps ...

I have two plants of Marketmore in the greenhouse and so far they have produced at least a dozen cukes with loads more to come

I seem to remember reading an article (in KG)a year or so ago about a couple who used crushed volcanic minerals on their garden with outstanding results. I was reminded of this whilst talking to a lady today who has been using Rock Dust (as she called it)for several years and says she also has super...

Thanks SM...a useful tip

My Governor suffers with arthritis and her finger joints swell painfully if she eats Oranges or Tomatoes

I watched a cabbage white butterfly neatly fold back its wings to squeeze through netting to lay eggs last year....amazing

I am now trying the Rhubarb tea application to the brassicas...seems to be working so far

Our site is being attacked by a persistant thief ...he/her does it every year Two years ago 'all' my gooseberries disappeared from a fruit cage...I now have to beat the blighter to it...this year half my red currants have gone (three bushes worth) A plot nearby has had his strawberries taken and ano...

This is my first year with Marketmore and I have to say I am a little disappointed. I have picked a couple this week with more on the way but I am finding that although they are tasty the skins are quite thick

I think I will go back to Burpless Green next year

I think I know where you are coming from SH... Having taken KG for about six years I still enjoy reading it and it is one of the best presented magazines around (but don't tell them that ) Maybe it is a case of variations on a theme...I have to admit I do tend to cherry pick its contents more than I...

JB I agree with you totally as I do see this first hand with my own daughter who is trying to bring up two small children, pay the mortgage and hold down a job after her husband walked out wanting the single life. I tend to look at the reality side of things as you do so often...a £3 chicken...the r...