Enough is enough
Dear All As I approach my 80th birthday, like many people, young and old, I struggle to make a sense of what is going on around me. I don’t buy newspapers anymore, rarely watch the news (until very recently) and try to stay away from…
7. The earliest spring
The earliest spring has finally arrived. In Nature, elements are interconnected, affecting and depending on each other. Longer days and higher temperatures awaken plants from slumber, resulting in the earliest food for the first, still tiered bees, and also free wild food for us. A…
Nature as lifestyle
…man and his erratic thoughts, while he through Nature walks… The world is a fast place. Expectations, toxic human relationships, stress, workload, commuting time, lack of natural light, constant noise… We are all aware of the importance of “here and now”, yet only a few…
6. Preparing the soil for deep mulching
Encouraged by so many questions that I have received about Ruth Stout`s straw deep mulching method that I am practicing here in the UK, I have decided to use this rainy day and to write about one of the most common questions that I keep…
5. Ruth Stout`s method in the UK- observations through summer 2021
It`s been a year now since I have started Ruth Stout`s deep mulching method in the UK, and I can say, based on this short experience, that I am very happy with the results. If you have read my previous posts, then you remember that…
Quirky birdhouses and my mindset
web: woodlives.uk email: woodlivesuk@gmail.com Facebook: woodlives bp Instagram: woodlives_uk ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ These birdhouses are available in my shop and I ship anywhere in the world:)! When I was a kid, I was very different, not because I wanted to be, I really was. By the age…
4. Midsummer updates
It’s the end of July and if honest, I didn’t think that the year will turn into such an abundance. Here in the UK, we had the coldest and rainiest May in the last 160 years and everything was on hold. My courgettes were planted…
3. Pass me your weeds, please
A neighbor on the allotment site stopped by my plot, which is covered with a thick layer of mulch, mostly hay. When I say thick, I mean it, the layer is around 15-20 cm, which I applied on the soil last autumn. He asked about…
2. Weeds seeds vs vegetables
One of the very common questions about deep mulching is how the vegetables can grow if weeds can`t? In my previous blog, I have described the benefits of deep mulching and it`s effect on weeds. Same would be with vegetables, if we didn`t pay some…