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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This is the very first post about mulching in the UK climate. I am sure that many have already tried this method here, but I haven’t met those to give me empiric advice, so I feel left without a choice but to start mulching again…

What is knowledge and how it is related to emotions? When I was 14, I had a garden above the village where I spent hours, days, and nights. One day, in my high school, a professor brought me a book and started talking to me,…