While Kim was visiting us in the UK, I planted some cabbages and pumpkin vines in my new, fledgling garden, but they were attacked very quickly by slugs. Hmm. How annoying. I'm trying to keep the garden as close to organic as possible, so I don't want to use any chemicals to kill the slugs. I started to look into garden diversity as an option and investigated which plants slugs … [Read more...] about Garden Diversity and Slugs
Natural Gardening
A Slow Worm! A What?
Ever since I've moved to England I've learnt a lot of interesting (and weird) things. The people here think Australia is weird, but the UK has lots of weird things for an Aussie like me, and the latest one is a "Slow Worm". Some of you will know that I do scything in my garden to cut the grass. Ok, I know you think that's weird but it's good exercise, interesting and a very … [Read more...] about A Slow Worm! A What?
Three deer in the garden
Last Monday, just after the sun came up, we noticed three deer in our back garden. Have a look at the video below (you'll have to "full screen" the video to see it properly). What a great view of nature. I'm not sure what mother deer was trying to teach her young, but she certainly was dashing around like a crazy old deer (sorry, pun intended). After running around in the … [Read more...] about Three deer in the garden