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Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
Your Rubbish Mission, Should You Choose to Accept it…
Posted in Electric rubbish, Food rubbish, General rubbish, Household rubbish, Paper rubbish, Plastic rubbish, Rubbish activism, tagged carbon footprint, composting, eco-education, gardening, Get Started with Compost, Landfill, Leftovers, Love Food Hate Waste, Plastic, Zero Waste Week on 12 December 2008 | 3 Comments »
How To: Get Started With Composting
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, tagged beat the credit crunch, composting, Downshifting, gardening, gardens, Get Started with Compost, Landfill, Leftovers, money saving tips, Phil Gamble, Recycling, Sustainable Living on 11 December 2008 | 7 Comments »
Recently, I featured a piece by horticultural expert, lecturer and all round nice bloke, Phil Gamble…
Today Phil explains the rudimentary basics of composting, how it works and what it does.
In my opinion, wintertime is the perfect time to get a compost heap going. There are so many delicious vegetables to fill up your plates and [...]
How To: Get Down and Dirty Together, Creating Community Soil
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish activism, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish ideas, The Book of Rubbish Ideas info, tagged beat the credit crunch, Cannington College, Compost Outing, composting, gardening, gardens, Get Started with Compost, horticulture, Paul Atterbury, Phil Gamble, RHS Chelsea Flower Show, The Antiques RoadShow on 12 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘Bigger, better food is waiting in your compost heap.’
I recently caught up with a delightful man and a horticultural expert, Phil Gamble.
Trained at Cannington College, Somerset in it’s heyday, Philip’s background includes two posts as Head Gardener and ten years on the lecturing staff at Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester. He’s an established freelance lecturer and [...]
Peace and Carrots
Posted in Food rubbish, Rubbish how-to's, tagged beat the credit crunch, Garden Organic, gardening, gardens, growing food at home, growing your own fruit and veg, Kitchen Garden, money saving tips, Self Sufficientish, self-sufficiency on 9 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It seems like a blink-of-an-eye ago that I was trying to decide where to plant my tomatoes and chilli peppers. “Get the sun in them girl”, my neighbour said and I plumped for an all day, full-on sun position – not that we’ve seen much of that this year, but anyway…
Now, the summer veggies [...]