Here in North Somerset I've just dug up a bucket of superb Pink Fur Apple potatoes from my garden that are still in the bed they grew in last year. I have light soil which is top dressed with plenty of my own compost and fed only with Comfrey tea.

What have folk got in their tunnels during this dark period?
My Tunnel has no heat.
I have all my winter carrots (Carrot Fly are endemic here) just planted Thermidrome Garlic, Sown early Leeks, and manured several beds.

It really depends on just what you think a 'gardener' is? I have a lifetimes experience at gardening having my first allotment when 14, spent many of my hours reading and practising gardening. Turning organic in the 70's and attempting self-sufficiency ever since in several gardens over the years, o...

I've been growing about 300 Thermindrome bulbs each season for many years in my pollytunnel. I plant on or about the Winter solstice and stop watering as the summer solstice turns up. I let them dry in the ground then lift an turn them over to ripen the undersides, tie them in strings and hang them ...

Thirty years later, Montreal's Olympic Stadium has finally been paid off
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 The Olympic-sized bill for the Big O is finally history some 30 years after the stadium was built as the main venue for the 1976 Summer Games.
Nuff said!

Well, personally I blame the government, but being a Libertarian I would. Having spent many of my years trying to achieve self-sufficiency clearly I decided to just do it for my self and my family. We thought that we would try very hard not to spend money, which has became a virtue in itself over th...

Perhaps they know something we don't?